Good News From Central Lombok, Poverty Rates There Don't Increase During The Pandemic

Regent of Central Lombok H Then Pathul Bahri. (Photo: Akhyar/Antara)

JAKARTA - The Central Lombok Regency Government in West Nusa Tenggara Province stated that based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) the percentage of the poor in 2021 was 13.44 percent or did not increase from the previous year despite the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 is the same," said the Regent of Central Lombok, H Lalu Pathul Bahri in Praya, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, December 21. does not increase in 2021. Meanwhile, the Open Unemployment Rate (TPT) of Central Lombok Regency in 2021 is 2.33 percent. This figure is lower than in 2020, which was 3.74 percent. This is what BPS said, not what I said, and this achievement is quite good considering the pandemic that is still hitting," he said.

The Regent hopes that efforts to reduce poverty are carried out jointly by all parties, so that in the future they will continue to carry out discussions in order to reduce poverty in Central Lombok. in formulating a sharper agenda to reduce poverty in Central Lombok Regency," he said. According to him, this poverty rate did not increase in the midst of the COVID pandemic, because of the Multiplier effect with the Mandalika Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and the World Superbike event at the Mandalika Circuit. "This cannot be separated from the joint efforts and attention of the central and provincial governments of West Nusa Tenggara to Central Lombok Regency," he said. Previously, the poverty rate in Central Lombok in 2020 reached 13.44 percent of the total population of Central Lombok, which reached 1.1 million people.