Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment (Menko PM) Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin became a speaker at the commemoration of the five regional heads in Magelang, Central Java. Extreme poverty is an issue discussed in this activity.
"Yes, I focus on poverty, prevention with regional heads," said Cak Imin, Tuesday, February 25.
According to him, the central and regional governments must have a new breakthrough to overcome these problems. Thus, extreme poverty can be resolved immediately.
"At the same time new breakthroughs that we must create so that extreme poverty no later than 2026 has been completed," he said.
In addition, the collaboration between the central and regional governments must also be able to reduce the poverty rate in Indonesia by up to four percent.
Based on a report from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) as of March 2024, it is known that the number of poor people reached 25.22 million.
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This ratio is equivalent to 9.03 percent of the total population nationally. Although the number is high, the number of poor people in March 2024 has decreased by around 680 thousand people compared to March last year.
"Then we have to overcome poverty, which amounts to 25 million of our poor citizens, we must overcome it, we will continue to reduce it at least until 2029, which is only 4 percent," said Cak Imin.
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