AIP Rural Economic Development Program The Australia - Indonesia Partnership for Rural Economic Development (AIP-Rural) aims to boost agricultural productivity by increasing public and private sector investment in key areas such as irrigation, access to technology and finance. It works in five provinces in Eastern Indonesia: East Java, West Nusa Tenggara,  East Nusa Tenggara , Papua, and West Papua. The Program goal is to increase the real incomes of 300,000 farmers by 30 per cent by 2018. AIP-Rural will promote competitiveness by facilitating partnerships between market actors to create innovative business modelssolutions to improve the supply chain in commodities of importance to smallholder farmers. Program components include: PRISMA, an agribusiness activity working across agricultural sectors to increase farmer’s incomes ($77m) including value chain financing sub-program (SAFIRA) with total budget of AUD4 million; TIRTA- an irrigation program aimed at stimulating private investment to address tertiary irrigation needs