Prabowo Targets Poverty Rate At 7-8 Percent Throughout 2025

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JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto is targeting poverty in the range of 7 to 8 percent throughout 2025. This is as stated in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 79 of 2025 concerning the Updating of Government Work Plans (RKP) in 2025.

"The government is committed to eradicating poverty which covers various dimensions, not only related to economic limitations, but also social inequality, marginalization of vulnerable groups, as well as limited access to basic services," the regulation reads, quoted on Saturday, September 20.

In this regulation, it is explained that the urgency to reduce poverty due to poverty reduction tends to stagnate at 9 percent during the period 2018 to 2023. This is reinforced by recipients of social assistance (bansos) on target of only 41.56 percent in 2024.

In addition, it is also explained that the disparity of regional poverty is still a challenge, as reflected in the percentage of rural poor people reaching 11.34 percent in September 2024, almost twice as high as urban areas of 6.66 percent.

Not only that, the government also noted that until now there are still 20 provinces with poverty rates above the national level.

To alleviate the poverty problem, Prabowo has a number of strategies that will be carried out in the near future. First, the formation of single data through the development of National Sole Social Economic Data (DTSEN).

Second, digitizing the distribution of adaptive social assistance through welfare cards and increasing income.

"The situation that wants to be realized is to reduce the poverty rate to 7-8 percent by 2025," explained the regulation.

As for the sake of mitigating risks in implementing a poverty reduction policy strategy, risk mitigation efforts are needed, including strengthening synergies between agencies directed at planning collaboration, implementation and program supervision.

Then, governance and utilization of DTSEN in targeting and planning programs as well as strengthening the graduation mechanism for social assistance recipients so that the poor and vulnerable can transition sustainably to more independent and prosperous conditions.