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In a speech at the National Health Work Meeting in Jakarta on Wednesday, Muhadjir suggested that rich people should marry those who came from low-income families, arguing that such marriages would help reduce the national poverty rate.
In the wake of the recognition that poverty is a multidimensional problem, Indonesia still favors the outdated measures of poverty based on income and consumption. The poverty data of Statistics Indonesia (BPS) might provide us with information on the main determinants of consumption-based poverty in the provinces. Yet, when it comes to the non-monetary dimensions of poverty, we remain clueless.
In Indonesia, poverty reduction is on the right track. The considerable economic growth in the last two decades has helped the country reduce its poverty rate from 24.2 percent in 1998 to a single-digit poverty rate of 9.41 percent in March 2019, according to Statistics Indonesia (BPS). Nevertheless, several challenges remain.
