Kuala Lumpur (Xinhua) – China's poverty eradication efforts will serve as a role model for other countries to follow suit, Jose Ramos-Horta, president of the Democratic Republic of Timo

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – The government plans to push up the poverty line in a move that would bring Indonesia's measure closer to that of the World Bank, even though that could be polit

Ananda Ridho Sulistya, Jakarta – Structural poverty is one of the forms of poverty that exists in Indonesia.

Anastasya Lavenia Y, Jakarta – The Indonesian government isn't expected to blindly adopt the World Bank's updated poverty threshold, said Aviliani, Deputy Chair for Macroeconomic and Mi

Erfan Maruf, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is preparing a new method for calculating the national poverty line in response to recent adjustments made by the World

Anastasya Lavenia Y, Jakarta – The World Bank has raised the international poverty line from US$2.15 per capita daily to US$3.00.

On a rainy day in Jakarta, three men coated in metallic paint known as the "manusia silver", or silvermen, brave the elements at an intersection near a mall to ask drivers for change.

Antara, Jakarta – The Statistics Indonesia (BPS) has stated that World Bank data indicating that 60.3 percent of Indonesia's population is classified as poor should be considered solely

Fahri Ali, Depok, West Java – West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi is urging men from low-income households to undergo vasectomies as part of a new birth control initiative aimed at reducing

Antara, Jakarta – The Minister of Social Affairs, Saifullah Yusuf, said the government aims to lower extreme poverty to 0 percent by 2026, and the national poverty rate to drop below fi

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto said Rp30 trillion is enough to address absolute poverty in the country, while the National Zakat Agency (Baznas) has been able to

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto aims to eliminate extreme poverty by 2026 and reduce Indonesia's overall poverty rate from 8.7 percent to 4.5 percent by the end of h

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – The Institute for Economic and Social Research (LPEM) at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) at the University of Indonesia (UI) lamented that the

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Indonesia has recorded a historically low poverty rate, according to the latest survey conducted by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), but inequality has worsened sligh

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – The percentage of Indonesia's population living in poverty decreased to 8.57 percent in September 2024, a decline of 0.46 percentage points compared to

Michelle Gabriela, Jakarta – Lim Chai Hock, one of the key figures behind PT Bayan Resources, is included in Forbes' list of the richest people in Indonesia in December 2024, with a wea

Dat Nguyen – The list of 50 richest individuals in Indonesia is made up of all billionaires for the first time this year, with combined wealth rising 4% to $263 billion.

Jane Ho and Naazneen Karmali – Despite concerns over the weak purchasing power of its middle class, resource-rich Indonesia is targeting 8% economic growth, up from the estimated 5.1% e

Vedro Imanuel G, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said the poor population in Indonesia has grown in 2024, reaching 25.22 million across the country.

Mita Amalia Hapsari, Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf, commonly known as Gus Ipul, has set a target to eliminate extreme poverty in Indonesia within the next two years.

Hendrik Yaputra, Amirullah, Jakarta – Budiman Sudjatmiko, The Head of the National Team for Accelerating Poverty Reduction (BP Taskin), stated that President Prabowo Subianto wants to e

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The populous Indonesia is aiming to be free of extreme poverty in 2025 as the government allocates hundreds of trillions of rupiahs for social protection p

Jakarta – It would be unwise to assume that the decline in the poverty rate in Indonesia, which reached a historic low of 9.03 percent in March according to Statistics Indonesia (BPS),

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – The country's poverty rate has fallen to a historic low this year while inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has hit its lowest point in more than a

Melynda Dwi Puspita, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia (BPS) has recently released the latest data on the country's poverty rate as of March 2024, revealing a decrease of 0.33 percent to 9

Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reported that the number of people living in poverty in March 2024 fell to 25.22 million, a decrease of 680,000 (0.33

Whisnu Bagus Prasetyo, Jakarta – The Hartono brothers, owners of Djarum Group, have overtaken coal magnate Low Tuck Kwong, moving to second and third place on Forbes' list of Indonesia'

Alfida Rizky Febrianna, Jakarta – The Institute for Demographic and Poverty Studies (IDEAS) projects Indonesia's potential qurban economy for 2024 to reach Rp 28.2 trillion ($1.7 billio

Whisnu Bagus Prasetyo, Jakarta – Indonesia's wealthiest conglomerate, Prajogo Pangestu, has secured the 25th position on Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires List, according to the latest upd

Jakarta – Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy said it would be unrealistic to expect Indonesia's poverty rate to fall to 7.5 percent this year to meet t

Jakarta – Economic inequality was one of the issues raised over the last few weeks during the presidential election campaigns, but unfortunately, none of the three candidates put forwar

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Newly released data from Statistics Indonesia (BPS) reveal a deep discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots in Jakarta, given that the townspeople's spendi

Singapore – Despite slowing exports and a dip in the benchmark stock index, the collective net worth of tycoons on the 2023 Forbes list of Indonesia's 50 Richest rose 40% to a record US

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

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

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.

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