Jakarta (Bisnis) – Chairman of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Bambang PS Brodjonegoro is optimistic that Indonesia's poverty rate and Gini coefficient will continu

It is now Ramadan – the holy month for Indonesia's Muslim majority – and, as happens every year, news about soaring food prices is dominating headlines.

Jakarta – The International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) has called on the government to continue tackling the gap between the rich and poor by providing more beneficial

Rachmadea Aisyah, Jakarta – Indonesia has maintained a single-digit poverty rate as it posted a 9.66 percent rate as of September 2018, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) reported on Tuesday,

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Zulkifli Hasan has reminded President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration to work harder on the country'

Kartika Anggraeni, Jakarta – Central Statistics Agency (BPS) chief Suhariyanto has revealed one item other than rice that remains a factor affecting Indonesia's poverty: cigarettes.

Jakarta – The poverty rate in Indonesia has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded, according to the latest data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).

Ahmad Faiz, Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko has shrugged off the recent statement of the national coordinator for the Indonesian Dawn Prayers [GIS], Eggi Sudja

Oki Raimundos, Dili, East Timor – Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta has waded back into the young country's politics ahead of parliamentary

Jakarta – Five Indonesians made the list of 2,208 billionaires from 72 countries and territories worldwide released by Forbes on Tuesday.

Jakarta – Cigarette consumption is the second largest contributor to poverty in the country, following rice consumption as the largest contributor, the National Development Planning Boa

The Indonesian government unfortunately still has a long way to go when it comes to making life easier for both pedestrians and people with disabilities, and not just in terms of infras

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The government has vowed to redouble efforts to eradicate poverty and develop human resources in 2018 through the disbursement of social aid and village fund

Jakarta – The combined wealth of Indonesia's 40 richest people in 2017 reached Rp 1.62 quadrillion (US$119.2 billion), according to Megawati Institute executive director Arief Budimanta.

Jakarta – The Hartono brothers, who have topped the Forbes Indonesia Rich List for nine years in a row, extended their gap at the top with their net worth rising to US$32.3 billion from $17.1 billi

Ian Lloyd Neubauer, Dili, East Timor – Smouldering fires. Haphazard explosions. Malnourished children. The disintegration of law and order and the absence of social services.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo administration has set aside more than Rp 67 trillion (US$5.014 billion) from the 2017 draft budget for social assistance through various programs, ahead of

Jakarta – The government is accelerating efforts to bring down Indonesia's Gini ratio to 0.370 by 2019, from the current ratio of 0.393.

Jakarta – A tiny number of millionaire households will control more than 50 percent of Indonesia's financial wealth – around $900 billion – by 2021, a new report from Boston Consulting Group showed

Rupert Neate – The four richest men in Indonesia own as much wealth as the country's poorest 100 million citizens, despite the nation's president repeatedly pledging to fighting "dangerous" levels

Jakarta – Indonesia is the sixth worst country in the world in terms of economic inequality, says a report from Oxfam Indonesia and the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (lNFlD).

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The government kicked off the distribution of non-cash food subsidies in the form of cards on Thursday in Cibubur, East Jakarta.

Jakarta – Indonesia's Gini ratio decreased slightly from 0.397 points in March 2016 to 0.394 points in September, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has said.

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called on his Cabinet ministers to create a policy to address socioeconomic disparity in the country.

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Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed his ministers to further reduce economic disparity by stepping up the implementation of the government's poverty eradication program.

Forbes' annual catalog of the country's wealthiest people reads like a who's who of industry tycoons.

The starkness of Indonesia's wealth inequality is quantified in the latest study by multinational financial services company Credit Suisse, titled Global Wealth Report 2016.

Venidora Oliveira – Poverty rates in Timor-Leste have declined from 47.2% in 2007 to 30.3% in 2014, according to government data.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's two years in office has resulted in some achievements, although some issues in the economic sector remain unaddressed, an expert said on Saturday.

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – The administration of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla has statistically managed to reduce the country's poverty rate since entering office, b

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Economic inequality in Indonesia has slightly narrowed as the contribution of income earners in the middle-income segment increased amid the government's effort to boost l

Jakarta – Indonesia's poverty rate reached 10.8 percent of the population in March, the lowest level in at least 20 years, thanks to manageable prices, the latest Central Statistics Agency (BPS) da

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – The number of people living below the poverty line in Jakarta has increased since September last year as a result of rises in the prices of basic commodities and inflation

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia has some of the lowest cigarette prices in the world, with a pack costing just US$1.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – The number of Indonesians aged over 65 years old is estimated to increase by between 7 to 14 percent from the current figure in 2050, leading to increasing budgetary

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – For train commuters in Greater Jakarta, dozens of makeshift huts and tiny houses huddled along the railway are a common sight.

Tassia Sipahutar – Recent data suggesting an improvement to equality in the country has not impressed economists who believe that it merely reflects restrained consumption among the wealthy and ris

Ayomi Amindoni – The vast, mineral-rich province of Papua has the worst income equality in the country, with a Gini ratio of 0.43 percent, exceeding the national ratio of 0.4, according to the Cent

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia's Gini coefficient ratio improved by 0.01 to 0.4 in September 2015. The Gini ratio is an indicator measuring income-distribution inequality.

Ayomi Amindoni – The government's aim of reducing the national inequality ratio, known as the Gini ratio, from 0.41 to 0.39 in 2016 is too ambitious according to one activist, who points out that B

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has said that the poverty level has increased on account of slow economic growth and food-price increases.

Kupang – The number of underprivileged people in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) as of September 2015 stood at 1,160,530, a rise of 22.58 percent compared to the corresponding period in 2014.

Jakarta – The number of Indonesians living in poverty continued to be on the rise as of last September, as weakening economic growth curbed income opportunities among the country's most underprivil

Arya Dipa, Apriadi Gunawan and Panca Nugraha, Bandung/Medan – Due to the increase in staple food prices, the number of underprivileged people, especially in urban areas, has increased, especially i

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Indonesia is at risk of leaving its poor and vulnerable behind as the nation's income inequality continues its rapid rise, a World Bank official has said.

Jakarta – As the Indonesian automotive industry keeps lowering sales targets, the premium market segment seems to be avoiding much of the pain caused by a slowing economy, as Mercedes-Benz is repor

Sandra Siagian, Jakarta – Every afternoon, Wahyu sets up his wooden food cart by the side of a busy road in Central Jakarta to sell sweet buns, known as bakpao, to people passing by.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency, or BPS, last week released Indonesia's latest poverty data, which found that 27.73 million people, or about 11 percent of the country

Hizbul Ridho, Jakarta – The National Development Planning Ministry has claimed Indonesia will be "slum-free" by 2019 as the government plans to improve the living conditions of some of