Pramono Responds To BPS Data: In Jakarta, Rich People Are Richer

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung said residents who are in the upper middle class in Jakarta are getting richer at this time.

This is in response to the latest data from the DKI Jakarta Central Statistics Agency (BPS) for the March 2025 period. Where, BPS noted that inequality in Jakarta increased.

"From all the actual indicators that we have experienced an increase, this is the ratio. So it's not that the poor are increasing, but indeed the rich are getting richer in Jakarta," said Pramono at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Wednesday, July 30.

Pramono views that the phenomenon of economic inequality in Jakarta has been very visible since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Therefore, the government continues to issue social assistance programs (bansos) to people in need.

"We continue to do the money for the poor. If we look at what is distributed, whether it's a Smart Jakarta Card, Healthy Jakarta, elderly, disabled, nothing like Jakarta," he said.

Previously, BPS DKI Jakarta recorded that the number of poor people in Jakarta reached 464.87 thousand people, an increase of 15.8 thousand people compared to September 2024 which reached 449.07 thousand people.

The poverty rate in Jakarta in March 2025 was 4.28 percent, an increase of 0.14 percent compared to September 2024 which was 4.14 percent.

In addition to an increase in the poverty rate in DKI Jakarta in March 2025, expenditure inequality (gini ratio) also increased, which means that the expenditure gap for the upper class and lower class population is getting higher.

According to BPS, this increase in inequality shows that the benefits of economic growth are not completely evenly distributed in all community groups.

The distribution of Jakarta's population expenditure as of March 2025 shows that the lowest 40 percent expenditure group decreased by 0.03 percentage points to 16.12 percent compared to September 2024.

According to the World Bank category, this figure shows that the inequality of population expenditure in DKI Jakarta is still in the moderate inequality category.