JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto said that Indonesia's poverty and unemployment rate had decreased. He revealed this at the PSI Congress, Sunday, July 20.
His statement apparently quoted the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti as saying. BPS will soon release the latest data on unemployment and poverty rates in Indonesia.
The BPS report released in May 2025 shows Indonesia's open unemployment rate has fallen to 4.76 percent as of February 2025. Although the percentage has decreased, the number of unemployed has increased to 7.28 million people, an increase of 83,450 people compared to February 2024.
Meanwhile, poverty data as of September 2024 was at 8.57 percent or around 24.08 million people. The poverty rate from the BPS report previously caused debate because of its far difference to the World Bank report.
In the last few months, there has been a lot of news about the number of layoffs, the lack of jobs and many companies going out of business. How did economists find? Is it true that the poverty and unemployment rates in Indonesia have decreased? Check out the full information on VOI.id.
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