AKURAT.CO The fiscal, social and sustainable development policy research institute, Prakarsa, said that there are three poor areas that will be a big job for the two presidential candidates later.
Executive Director of Prakarsa Ah Maftuchan said that according to the Multidimensional Poverty Index (IKM) study, the government has now succeeded in reducing poverty. However, three regions, namely Papua, West Papua and East Nusa Tenggara, still show relatively high IKM.
"Government intervention in various programs and policies related to poverty reduction has proven to be quite successful. Although in Papua, NTT and West Papua, IKM is still quite high," he said in the release of the IKM Prakarsa study, Thursday (11/4/2019).
The IKM of the three regions in 2018 included Papua with the highest IKM of 60,56%. Then NTT by 35,64% and West Papua by 32,66%.
Meanwhile, the three regions with the lowest IKM are DKI Jakarta at 2,17%. Then followed by DIY Yogyakarta at 2,22% and Central Java with IKM at 3,74%.
On the same occasion, Prakarsa researcher Rahmanda M. Thaariq said the IKM calculation method uses the 2015-2018 National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) database. The IKM method calculates deprivation in the dimensions of health, education and standard of living.
According to IKM calculations, the multidimensional number of poor people shows a downward trend in the 2015-2018 period when compared to the 2012-2014 period.
In the 2015-2018 period, the calculation results show that in 2015, the multidimensional poor population reached more than 34 million people (13,53 percent). In 2016, the multidimensional poor fell to 30 million people (12 percent).
In 2017 there was a very significant decline, the multidimensional poor population in 2017 reached 24,9 million people (9,56 percent). In 2018, the number of multidimensional poor people fell to 21,5 million people or about 8,17% of the total population of Indonesia.
source: ThePrakarsa.org
