Identifying the Poor in Indonesia: Poverty Measures and Data Sources

SOLVAY GERKE (University of Bonn, solvay.gerke@uni-bonn.de)

Abstract


The rise of poverty in Indonesia since the monetary crisis of 1997 has been of major concern to the Indonesian government, international agencies and scholars. In this paper the writer aim to identify the various dimensions of poverty and to discuss the problem of identifying the poor. The paper provides infomtion on the main data sources in Indonesia and outlines how poverty is measured on the national and local level. In conclusion different data sets and poverty measures are compared and evaluated as to their reliability and usefulness.

Key words: Indonesia, poverty, data sources, monetary crisis

ABSTRAK

Peningkatan kemiskinan di Indonesia sejak meletusnya krisis kewangan pada 1997 telah menjadi isu utama yang mendapat perhatian pemerintah Indonesia, agensi antarabangsa dan para sarjana. Dalam makalah ini, penulis cuba mengenalpasti pelbagai dimensi kemiskinan, dan membincangkan masalah bagaimana mengenalpasti golongan miskin. Makalah ini mengemukakan maklumat mengenai sumber-sumber data yang utama di Indonesia dan menggariskan bagaimana kemiskinan diukur pada tahap nasional dan setempat. Dalam bahagian kesimpulan, makalah ini membuat perbandingan pelbagai set data dan ukuran kemiskinan yang berbeza serta membuat penilaian mengenai reliability dan kegunaan data dan ukuran tersebut.

Kata kunci: Indonesia, kemiskinan, sumber data, krisis kewangan


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