JAKARTA - Many World Bank reports reported that 60.3 percent or around 171.91 million Indonesians fall into the poor category. The data recorded a decline from 61.8 percent in 2023, and 62.6 percent in 2022.
Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti told reporters at the Jakarta Presidential Palace Complex, Wednesday, April 30, explaining the World Bank report. Amalia explained that the grouping of poor people used by the World Bank was based on a poverty line reference for the category of state-of-art countries receiving upwards with a standard of USD6.85 PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) per capita per day.
Meanwhile, calculations in Indonesia, according to Amalia, are different. Officially, the calculation using the national poverty line is USD2.15 PPP per capita per day. This means that, according to Amalia, the data issued by the World Bank cannot be evenly hit to determine the poverty level of a country.
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