A cost-of-living crisis and a government apparently impervious to the struggles of everyday people has ignited rage.

Indonesia has made impressive gains in reducing poverty, with previously lagging regions catching up. The Government’s goal to eliminate extreme poverty by 2024 is basically met. As an aspiring ...

Economists have questioned the country’s rosy GDP data and other statistics, as protesters demand action against economic hardships.

A viral story about a bereaved Indonesian father from Ciledug District in the city of Tangerang is a heart-rending tale of poverty in a country that dreams of achieving developed status by 2030.

Indonesia’s largest wave of protests in nearly a decade forced President Prabowo Subianto to cancel a key diplomatic trip to ...

This study investigates the effect of parental aspirations gap on children’s educational attainment between 2007 and 2014, using two waves of Indonesian Family Life Survey data. The aspirations gap is ...

JAKARTA, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto promised in an election manifesto published on Wednesday to fully eradicate extreme poverty within the first two years of ...

Despite declines in extreme child poverty, nearly 85 per cent of South Asian children live below USD 8.30/day, indicating ...

The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2019), pp. 573-597 (25 pages) Centralized targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries.

Some 365 people have fallen ill in an Indonesian town after eating school lunches, the largest spate of food poisonings to hit President Prabowo Subianto's free meals programme so far. The meals have ...

KARANG JATI, Indonesia (Reuters) - On a dry and dusty sports field in central Java, Indonesian men dressed as traditional warriors take turns to battle with wooden staves, while village women crowd ...