ABSTRACT
Having identifi ed the content of the play (policy goals) in chapter two, this chapter will focus instead on issues of stage (context), actors and their performances (efforts). Specifi cally, the purpose of this chapter is to analyze international donors’ policy instruments in Indonesia’s higher education, and to lay out in what way these have corresponded with changing domestic patterns of higher education fi nancing in Indonesia. While the analysis will concentrate predominantly on resource fl ows (i.e. funding levels and their distribution within the system), it will also review delivery modes and implementation procedures. The analysis indicates that both the size-certainly not “marginal” in the Indonesian case-and the form(s) of the donor interventions are indicative of a potentially infl uential role for international assistance in Indonesia’s higher education.
