Eliminating Extreme Poverty a Daunting Task: VP Ma'ruf Amin
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25 August 2021 22:25 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin in a meeting of the national poverty mitigation on Wednesday said the Indonesia's zero percent extreme poverty reduction target before the end of 2024 will not be an easy task.
“The zero percent goal at the end of 2024 is definitely not an easy task to achieve,” said the VP as he led the meeting that held virtually on August 25, Antaranews reported.
Indonesia has set to reduce extreme poverty to nearly nonexistent as a long term goal while the short term goal in 2021 is to reduce extreme poverty in seven provinces, namely West Java, East Java, Maluku, East Nusa Tenggara, West Papua, and Papua.
This goal aligns with the SDGs that pledges to erase extreme poverty in 2030. However, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had ordered state officials to realize this goal sooner and set the 2040 deadline.
Referring to Statistics Indonesia (BPS), as of March 2021, Ma'ruf Amin said Indonesia’s poverty rate reached 27.54 million souls while extreme poverty reached 10.86 million. This data was extracted from 212 regencies and cities across 25 provinces.
Read: Poverty Rate Grows to 27.54 mn in March 2021: Statistics Indonesia
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