BPS Records Poor Population In Central Java Decreased By 66.7 Thousand People

Screenshot of the Central Java BPS Youtube page when Head of Central Java BPS Dadang Hardiwan conveyed the development of poverty in Semarang, Monday. (ANTARA)

SEMARANG - Central Java Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded a decrease in the number of poor people by 66.7 thousand people in the March 2023 period compared to September 2022. Head of Central Java BPS Dadang Hardiwan said the number of poor people in this province until March 2023 was recorded at 3.79 million people. "The poverty rate in March 2023 was recorded at IDR 477,580 per capita per month," he said in a press release in Semarang, Antara, Monday, July 17. Meanwhile, based on the region, from September 2022 to March 2023, there was a decrease in the poor population in urban areas by 30.5 thousand people. Meanwhile, the poor in rural areas, he continued, fell to 36.2 thousand people. "The poverty rate in urban areas is around 9.78 percent and the poverty rate in rural areas is around 11.8 percent," he said. He explained that a number of factors that influenced the reduction in the poverty rate in Central Java, including inflation for the period September 2022 to March 2023, which was 1.3 percent lower than the same period the previous year. In addition, he said, Central Java's economic growth in the first quarter of 2023 reached 5.04 percent.

Dadang added that in the period August 2022 to February 2023 there was a decrease in the unemployment rate. "The number of people working compared to the working age population has also increased," he said.