# Dear Indonesia

- Link: https://perfectnations.org/dear-indonesia/
- Published: 2026-11-06T10:36:54-04:00
- Author: Preeti Sinha

[The Indonesia blueprint](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/indonesia/)

Perfect Nations™ · Letters to the NationsIndonesia

# Dear Indonesia,

Red over white, the Sang Saka Merah-Putih, under the motto Bhinneka Tunggal Ika:
Unity in Diversity. You hold half your land in forest, and you were among the first
nations to sell a green sukuk to the world.

Think of what you have already built. In June 2025 the World Bank approved a $2.1
billion package: $1.5 billion for financial-sector and renewable-energy reforms 
and about $628 million to bring electricity to 3.5 million people. In September 
2025 it added $500 million to modernise the grid that serves Java, Madura and Bali.

At home the record is just as real. Ninety-six in every hundred of you can always
count on enough good food. Ninety in every hundred of you cook with clean fuel. 
Eighty-eight in every hundred of you have a safely managed toilet at home.

The work ahead is plain, and it is worth saying plainly. Only thirty in every hundred
of you drink safely managed water at home. Sixty-four in every hundred of you lived
below $8.30 a day at the last count, in 2025. At the last count, in 2015, fifty-
three in every hundred of your children reached the end of primary school unable
to read a simple text. Water sets your Coverage today, at 30.5 out of 100, with 
income and reading close behind. Each of them is within your reach.

Now imagine that same resolve turned toward every home in the country. Picture Perfect
Indonesia: a morning when every family cooks with clean fuel and sits down to a 
full table; when every tap runs clean and every home has a safe toilet; when every
child walks to a school where a teacher is waiting, and reads with ease by the age
of ten; when every mother lives within reach of a clinic with the lights on, and
every young person finds work that pays. And no Indonesian falls below a decent 
life, because the nation has decided that none will.

None of this needs a miracle. It needs what you already own: your forests, your 
seas, your nickel, your volcanic soils, a world-class sovereign sukuk market and
the fourth-largest population on earth. They are assets no balance sheet counts,
and together they can carry every Indonesian to food, water, shelter, energy, education,
health and a livelihood.

> “Unity in diversity built a nation of seventeen thousand islands. Now let it bring
> safe water to every one of them.”

So this is an invitation. Bring your vision, your story and your solutions to the
Perfect Indonesia Design Studio, and join the Co-designers who are already imagining
what comes next. Perfect Indonesia will not be designed for you. It will be designed
by you.

Yours in design,

**Preeti Sinha**

President and CEO, Perfect Nations

Sources: [World Bank, 2025](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2025/06/16/world-bank-approves-investments-to-boost-indonesia-s-economic-growth-and-access-to-clean-energy)·
[World Bank, 2025](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2025/09/25/new-world-bank-support-to-help-indonesia-transform-its-electricity-grid-benefiting-millions)·
[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=ID)·
[World Bank, 2025](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.UMIC?locations=ID)·
[World Bank, 2015](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.LPV.PRIM?locations=ID)·
[World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/country/id)

 [Enter the Design Studio](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/indonesia/#bp-studio)
[Read the Indonesia blueprint](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/indonesia/)