Through his visits to Indonesia by the end of 1950s, Bob Pierce actually prepared path for World Vision ministry to bring about change and hope for children, families, and communities in Indonesia, the land of diversity.

Germann Eddey pro-actively broke new grounds for setting up productive bond with children homes in some other areas, for instance North Sulawesi and Sumba Island.

In 1963, about 30 children homes have been served. As the result of growing process, the office moved to Malang in the same year. Within two years later, World Vision expanded its ministry by supporting 37 children homes that served more than 1,800 children.

In addition to carrying out nurture program for children homes children, World Vision also got involved in channeling emergency aids - food items as well as medicines - for Internally Displaced Peoples afflicted by eruption of Mount Agung in Bali in 1963. Bob Pierce who personally came to observe the survivors condition represented World Vision in handing over the relief items. The same assistance was also offered for malnourished children in North Sulawesi.

As the years went by, World Vision ministry broadened and reached out more children beyond the children homes. By carrying out the Children Welfare Project, lives of children from poor families were also being strengthened. Through educational and health care supports as well as skills-building, they received essential resources to optimally grow their potential.

At this period World Vision endeavored new approached called the Community Development Program to reach more people in need. The program was put into action for the first time in Loksado hamlet in South Kalimantan in 1972. Through this program World Vision assisted the construction and operation of an Elementary School and in empowering the community. World Vision built some dormitories to give refuge to students whose homes were so far away from their schools. Aside from that, World Vision also encouraged communities living in remote areas to move closer to the school and to better public services. World Vision also facilitated the community to be more self-reliant through various program in agriculture, education, and health care.

Afterward, the conference in Pattaya, Thailand in 1974 decided to adopt the Community Development Program in Loksado - and another one in Lerak-Batu Ahim in West Kalimantan opened in 1973 -- as the ministry model for World Vision offices in other countries in the effort to respond the people in need.

In other areas, World Vision also carried out the Community Development Project/Program in Ngaduman and Kalimas Integrated Development Project.

Ngaduman Project assisted community with the construction of school building, livestock, literacy awareness, and vocational trainings for mothers. The Kalimas Project provided relocation for thousands of internally displaced people in West Kalimantan. Due to the support of the project, the relocated communities now benefit from their peaceful lives and more prosper lives.

At that moment the ministry focused more on integrative community development initiatives.

In this decade, the Memorandum of Understanding with Social Affairs Ministry was signed. Since then World Vision International Indonesia was known as one of the major International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) working at the grass-root level to help fight poverty.

Assistance program through children homes, family development and community development reached the peak in 1980s. At that time, assistance program got through over 250 projects in more than 20 provinces. On 1985, over 34,000 children were sponsored by World Vision.

Through cadres, World Vision conducted community empowerment by holding various advocacy awareness programs for grass root people so that gradually they could adopt more productive way of life. To support the ideal, World Vision built National Development Training Center (NDTC) in Jakarta. NDTC became the important place to equip and drill project cadres as well as staff who will be working with community in the field.

The graduates of NDTC proved to be the skillful community development facilitators. The same centers with smaller scope, called Regional Development Training Center and Development Training Center, were also opened in Papua and some other regions to create more development cadres.

Aside from that, World Vision also ran Development Assistant Center (DAC).

In this decade, World Vision offered supports in education, health care, and nutrition enhancement.

World Vision provided training for farmers and breeder to leverage their business. In some areas, agricultural experts were involved to bring new horizons of knowledge and skills to the communities. In other locations, communities received various seeds of groceries and horticulture for nutrition enhancement as well as for income generating. World Vision equipped youths as significant part of communities with vocational trainings such as sewing class, craftsmanship, bicycle reparation, and typing course to prepare them entering the working world.

This decade crafted World Visions engagement in rescue project of many Vietnamese boat people that fled away from their politically chaotic country into the South China Sea in an effort to find better living condition.

For five years, World Vision implemented comprehensive livelihood proliferation project among communities in Papua. In addition, through community development in Senggo, World Vision delivered 25 health clinics, trainings for health care staff, nutrition enhancement and income generating program that strengthened lives of 28,000 people.

In 1993, in respond to the ministry growth and professional management, Board was set up to provide leadership and direction for further ministry of World Vision in Indonesia.

Family to family approach was enhanced progressively to another approach that considered more on geographic situation and need. Area Development Program (ADP) as new concept began to be implemented in 1994/95. Since then, World Vision developed its ministries based on area focus.

In 1995, World Vision supported the establishment of a local organization called Wahana Visi Indonesia to ensure the sustainability of knowledge and capacity transfer from International organization to the local.

This innovative approach enabled World Vision to carry out program in more integrative and holistic way. The community empowerment was conducted intensively up to the grass root level so that step by step they could reach much better future.

Through ADP, World Vision simultaneously performed some improvement programs in education, basic health-care, clean water, environmental hygiene, nutrition, livelihood, land supervision, agricultural intensification, micro enterprises, self help group, and the like.

In this period, World Vision gained trust from donor agencies, especially foreign governmental agency to provide special basic health assistance. One of the health program was the Women's and Their Children's Health (WATCH) that covered scores of villages across Jayawijaya Sub district in Papua. The health program then expanded to Sanggau, Alor, Landak, Merauke, and others.

Since 1995/96, World Vision provided technical support for Wahana Visi Indonesia to work with communities in Pantai Kasuari and Maro sub-districts in Papua province and in Singkawang in West Kalimantan through the ADP approach.

Wahana Visi Indonesia raises local funding to support program implementations in those three areas.

World Vision intensively facilitated treatment and care for TB patients in five areas in East Nusa Tenggara. Hundreds of people in Rote, Kupang City, Kupang district, Timor Tengah Utara, and Alor finally recovered from TB after having access to thorough treatment provided by World Vision in collaboration with communities and local health offices. The similar program implemented in Merauke and Boven Digul in Papua.

World Vision also put effort in fighting malaria. Raising awareness program to encourage community to clean the environment, prevent malaria mosquito breeding, and promotion on usage medicated mosquito net conducted regularly in the malaria vulnerable areas, such as in Alor, Sumba, and West Kalimantan.

Between 1997 and 1999, the El Nino natural catastrophe, economic crisis and social conflicts hit Indonesia dearly. World Vision stood in the front line to channel out assistance for the people afflicted by all the disasters.

In 1997-1998, World Vision supported 100,000 people in Jayawijaya in Papua, that suffered from food shortage due to El Nino. Tons of food items were delivered, even to very remote areas so the Papuan people could survive the catastrophe. The similar assistance were provided to communities in Banggai, Sabu, Rote, and other areas.

During economic crisis that put pressures to poor communities in big cities, for example Jakarta and Surabaya, World Vision developed emergency response and social safety net through Cilincing emergency Response, Jakarta Emergency Operation Program and Surabaya Emergency Operation Program. Thousands of families in North and East Jakarta as well as Surabaya got benefit of the programs. Not only they had access to basic life needs, but they also were encouraged to participate in Food for Work program to clean out their environment, renovate sanitation facilities, build pathways and other public facilities.

Donor agency once again supported World Vision in channeling emergency aid when various conflicts, including ethnic and religious clash erupted in West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, East Timor, Central Sulawesi, Maluku, and North Maluku between 1998 and 2001. These conflicts changed lives of hundred thousands of families into calamities. World Vision strived to strengthen their lives by providing family kits, sanitary kits, under five children nutritious rations, house, and others.

Around year of 2000, World Vision continued to provide emergency assistance for poor communities due to prolong crisis. Supported by World Vision Global Center, we were entrusted by many donor agencies, such as AusAID, CIDA, USAID, WFP, JICA, UNICEF, DFID, ECHO, German and the Netherlands governments to channel emergency and rehabilitation aid to Indonesia.

World Vision also begin implementing program called Indonesia Micro Enterprise Development (IMED) during this period through a micro entrepreneurship development program in East Jakarta in 2000.

To enhance IMED Program, World Vision supported establishment of Mitra Masyarakat Sejahtera (MMS) foundation. As of the year 2009, MMS was facilitating over 1,700 clients that get small capital to run micro business. In certain period, they have to return the loan so that other person in need can also have their turn to receive the loan and the clients could also access bigger loan.

World Vision also helped build plain houses to accelerate resettlement process of Internally Displaced People to their own villages which they abandoned due to conflicts. In North Maluku province, together with the communities World Vision built around 6,000 units of temporary houses from 2001 to 2003. In Madura, the same process also occurred. World Vision built more than 2,000 units of houses for the IDPs and their children so that they could live in healthier environment.

Since 2001, World Vision pro-actively developed capacity building program for peace education in respect to local context. At first, World Vision facilitated dialogue inter and intra religious leaders to have better understanding for each other. Afterward they became the agents of change that encourage their communities to live in better harmony amid the diversity of their background. For children, reading materials promoting peace education and conflict resolution were also developed and distributed, particularly in North Maluku, which was torn apart earlier by communal conflict. The peace capacity building program was also run in other areas where World Vision served.

Previous experiences in disaster response made World Vision more ready to keep on with the commitment to channel aid when tsunami struck Aceh and North Sumatra.

On December 28, 2004 - only two days after the tsunami, World Vision's staff arrived in Banda Aceh to prepare channeling out a great scale of assistance. World Vision strived to improve lives of tsunami survivors by channeling out food and non-food items, resettlement houses, water and sanitation in IDPs' Temporary Living Centers, health care, livelihood program, build learning and playing centers for children called Child Friendly Spaces, build scores of schools, clinics and other facilities.

Earthquake survivors in Nias also got support from World Vision. Around 146 tons of rice from WFP was distributed by World Vision during emergency response. The government of Taiwan also supports World Vision to deliver educational assistances for children in Nias. With that support, World Vision built 20 schools, provided learning tools for students, and facilitated capacity building for teacher as well as the head masters in the effort of Creating Learning Communities for Children. It is believed, by this way, children in Nias will be able to accelerate their steps to reach the bright future.

World Vision keep on serving children, family, and community in Indonesia through long-term community transformational development program, special health program, peace education program, and emergency response, and rehabilitation program. Through various program, World Vision seek to take hold of those who are helpless and marginalized, both in rural and urban areas, so they can pursue healthier, peaceful and prosperous life in the future.

World Vision also responded to other disasters, such as earthquake in Jogjakarta and Central Java in 2006, Jakarta floods in 2007, and earthquakes in West Java and West Sumatra in 2009.

During the last few years, World Vision intensified disaster risk reduction training in scores of disaster-prone areas to better equip the local leaders to cope with disasters and minimize the loss of lives and properties.

World Vision has also been expanding its long-term community development programs to over 40 projects in nine provinces in 2010 - from less than 30 a few years ago -- in an effort to empower more poor people to be more self-reliant. Intensive community development programs, although not through the child sponsorship scheme, has also been launched in four districts in Aceh province since 2007 as the follow-up of the tsunami response in 2005-2007.

At the provincial and national level, World Vision has also made intensive advocacy initiatives, such as on child rights, child protection, primary healthcare, nutrition, and HIV-AIDS in an effort to encourage other stakeholders, including the government, to take more serious measures to tackle the problems.

Internally, World Vision has also intensively improved the competency of its workforce with an aim of meeting future challenges. This is in line with the objective to maintain World Vision's existence as one of the most influential NGOs in Indonesia.