Raden Putri, Andika Dwi, Jakarta – Forbes, an American business magazine, regularly publishes a list of the world's richest people on its Real-Time Billionaires ranking site.

Riri Rahayu, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy has spoken out about the poverty rate in Papua which has not been declining.

Amy Heppy, Jakarta – Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Cultural Affairs said that there are currently 3.3 million Indonesians in extreme poverty.

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Indonesia has become slightly more unequal over the past three years, even as more people have been lifted out of poverty, a fact that experts attribute to econo

Mutia Yuantisya, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia (BPS) of Jakarta Office recorded that the city's poverty rate in March 2023 stood at 4.44 percent, down 0.09 percent compared to March 20

Antara, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia (BPS) announced that the country's poverty rate was at 9.36 percent as of March 2023, down from September 2022's 9.57 percent.

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo highlighted the low budget for the poverty alleviation programs while the rate of impoverishment in the country remains high

Riri Rahayu, Antara, Jakarta – A public policy observer from Jakarta Trisaksi University, Trubus Rahadiansyah, assessed that the government is reluctant to update its poverty lin

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – The World Bank has called on Indonesia to expand its poverty eradication efforts to protect the millions of citizens it says are in danger of falling back into p

Reno Eza Mahendra, Jakarta – Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy stated that the majority of workers in the country are among the sandwic

Jakarta – Flaunting wealth seems to be an obsession these days, fueled in large part by the reach and instant gratification of social media.

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Riri Rahayu, Jakarta – Head of the National Planning Agency (Bappenas) Suharso Monoarfa acknowledged that high economic growth did not significantly lower the poverty rate.

Jakarta – Head of the General Affairs Division of the Jakarta Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Suryana, said that he was discussing efforts to reduce extreme poverty in the capital city

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – Indonesia's poverty rate as of September 2022 was recorded at 9.57 percent or equivalent to 26.36 million people who are below the poverty line.

Antara, Jakarta – The Papua Province Statistics Indonesia (BPS) on Monday announced that the percentage of Papuans living in poverty as of September 2022 amounted to 26.80 percent, whic

Jakarta – As the World Health Organization hopes COVID-19 will no longer be a public-health emergency in 2023, vulnerable Indonesians have to face a tougher road to recovery compared to

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – A recent survey has sounded alarms about inequality on the country's road to recovery, as vulnerable families, including households with disabled members or those

Beritasatu, Jakarta – Four members of a family aged between 42 and 71 were found dead inside their locked home in Citra Garden housing complex, West Jakarta on Thursday night, with poli

Antara, Jakarta – A total of 73,000 residents of Bogor Regency or 1.21 percent of the total population are living in extreme poverty.

Resty Woro Yuniar – I Made Nuka was torn when he had to choose in July between using what little money he had to either send his son to middle school or put food on the table for his fa

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia or BPS recorded that the number of poor people in the country continued to decline.

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on June 8 issued presidential instruction No.

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – For days, Dede has not been feeling well. Her throat felt dry and sore, her coughing incessant and her muscles ached.

Jane Ho and Naazneen Karmali – Following a 2% contraction in 2020, Indonesia's economy is expected to grow nearly 4% this year, fueled partly by rising commodity exports.

Jakarta – Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) Deputy Chairperson Anwar Abbas has made a statement strongly criticising the fact that 1 percent of the population controls half of the land in

Philanthropy is commendable as long as it's done right, an organization of Muslim clerics said in Indonesia, who just issued a fatwa (religious edict) declaring that giving money to str

Bisnis, Jakarta – To date, there are only three Indonesians that made it to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI) in 2021, which ranks the wealth of the world's 500 richest peop

Nadia Hamid – Jakarta is home to numerous luxurious malls, but these mega shopping centers often gloss over the extreme economic inequality in the capital, as one photo has painfully re

Antara, Jakarta – The latest data from Statistics Indonesia (BPS) related to people's main sources of income classifies the majority of households facing poverty in 2020 are the ones re

Millions of Indonesians fell into poverty during the pandemic, new data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) showed, pushing the country's poverty rate above 10 percent.

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Heavy rain suddenly poured down when Ahmad Marzuki, an office boy in Jakarta, was on his way home from a late shift in April 2018.

Erwida Maulia and Ismi Damayanti, Jakarta – Things were looking good back in January for Suryanti, an employee at a small travel agent in Bogor, a city south of the Indonesian capital o

Derrick A Paulo and Lewa Pardomuan, Jakarta – Torikhim knows the streets of Jakarta like the back of his hand.

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's recovery from the economic effects of the pandemic must focus on the sectors where the greatest number of workers have fallen into poverty

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Fifteen Indonesians have amassed fortunes surpassing US$1 billion, with the Hartono brothers remaining the country's wealthiest people, according to Forbes ma

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Around 1.63 million Indonesians fell into poverty in March compared with September last year as the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on the poor across the

Indonesia's Finance Ministry recently estimated that the national poverty rate will continue to increase amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with Java expected to be the most affected island i

Heru Andriyanto and Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has expressed concerns poverty rate in the country could climb to 12 percent from the current 9.2 percent

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – The government might have a prolonged struggle with eradicating poverty in the country as the months-long COVID-19 pandemic might set progress back to square

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – As the COVID-19 pandemic strikes the Indonesian economy, with almost 3 million people having lost their jobs and 70 million at risk of losing income because of

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government has projected that millions of people will fall into poverty and unemployment as the COVID-19 pandemic batters the Indonesian economy,

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Covid-19 pandemic will roll back Indonesia's progress in eradicating poverty in the past year while pushing the unemployment level to its highest since 20

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – In the past several weeks, the government has expanded several social assistance programs for low-income citizens across the country affected by the COVID-19 o

Beritasatu, Jakarta – The government has extended its social aid programs to offer more financial and food assistance to help Indonesia's most vulnerable during the peak of the coronav

Jakarta – The number of Indonesia's ultra rich is expected to jump by 57 percent to 1,060 individuals over the next four years, the second highest increase in Southeast Asia, according

Antara, Jakarta – The Joko Widodo (Jokowi) administration has outlined a reduction in the stunting and poverty rates as among the key targets for 2020 under its priority program to hon

Jakarta – Many of the oft-overlooked homeless population across the country struggle to secure decent accommodation and are forced to brave the streets, but few are willing to take thi

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – While free from poverty, approximately 115 million Indonesians, or 45 percent of the country's population, have yet to achieve economic security and the l

Bisnis, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced that Indonesia's poverty rate up to September 2019 reached 9.22 percent.