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- The poorest citizens – particularly women – receive low wages and face insecurity at work. Access to infrastructures such as electricity or decent roads is unequal with rural areas less provided for than urban ones. The vast majority of the land is owned by big corporations and rich people who get all the benefits.
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Aug 21, 2019 · We find people’s acceptance of poverty is the biggest obstacle to eradicating poverty in Yogyakarta and Banten, both on Indonesia’s most populated Java island. Research and findings Yogyakarta, about 500 kilometres from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, is the poorest province on Java.
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Mar 22, 2021 · Indonesia has achieved moderately fast economic growth for most of the past 50 years. Have living standards risen commensurately? The purpose of this paper is to survey, analyze, and interpret trends in poverty and inequality over this period. I also explore some broader analytical and policy lessons from the Indonesian experience.
- Hal Hill
- 2021
Oct 8, 2021 · Approximately 3.6 percent of Indonesia’s total population (9.5 million people) is multidimensionally poor, while an additional 4.7 percent of the total population (12.8 million) is vulnerable to multidimensional poverty according to 2017 data.
- Siti Maryam: Catching Up with Dream
- Darmin: Trapped in Poverty
- Tackling Inequality in Indonesia: A Matter of Political Will
Siti Maryam (44 years old) is a domestic worker for a family in South Jakarta. Maryam is a widow and mother of two. Her husband died over five years ago. She has been working as a domestic worker since she was 15 years old, two years after graduating from primary school. Maryam and her two older siblings had to drop out of school. Their farmer pare...
Darmin, a tofu maker and seller, moved to Jakarta more than 40 years ago. He has been moving around from one place to another carrying his asbestos shack with him. Today, he lives in the middle of the city, in a plot owned by a rich Indonesian. Everyday he cycles around his neighborhood to sell his tofu and earns on average Rp 50,000/day (less than...
There’s a public desire for the government to take action to close the gap, and President Jokowi has made fighting inequality his administration’s top priority for 2017. Although some policy measures are already in place, the government could go further. Read our report ‘Towards a more equal Indonesia’ and find out how the Indonesian government can...
As a sprawling archipelago, poverty characteristics and implications vary widely from island to island and culture to culture. The Indonesian part of New Guinea (comprising the provinces of Papua and West Papua) has serious poverty issues of its own due to economic, cultural, linguistic and physical isolations which set it apart from the rest ...
Indonesia has made remarkable poverty reduction progress, with extreme poverty basically eradicated. Indonesia can now turn to broadening its definition of poverty to commensurate with its middle-income status.
Apr 25, 2024 · This study presents a multidimensional urban sprawl assessment in 15 Indonesian island cities using 17 indicators across densities, composition, and configuration dimensions. The analysis utilizes data from the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL).
