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Fri, 08/15/2008 - 15:29
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PRESIDENT : ACCELERATED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CAUSED RAPID DECLINE IN POVERTY RATE
Jakarta, Aug 15 (ANTARA) - Part of the positive impact of accelerated economic development in Indonesia has been a rapid decline in the open unemployment and poverty rates, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.
The president made the statement in his State-of-the-Nation Address on the Draft 2009 State Budget and Financial Notes at a House of Representatives (DPR) plenary session here Friday.
Yudhoyono said the open unemployment rate in February 2006 was 10.5 percent but it had dropped to 8.5 percent in February this year.
By the same token, Yudhoyono said, the poverty level had also dropped from 17.7 percent in 2006 to 15.4 percent in March 2008, and the poverty figure in 2008 was the lowest ever, both in terms of its size and percentage, in the last 10 years.
"There is also a declining trend in the poverty figure even if we use the poverty figure criteria of the World Bank, and this has been a concrete achievement for which we should be grateful," Yudhoyono said.
"I would like to express my thanks to all the parties concerned, including governors, district heads and mayors all over the country, who have toiled hard for this," he added.
In the context of speeding up the lowering of the poverty level, the president said the government had embarked on a harmonization and synergy program and budget for poverty alleviation at the central level, which was concretely carried out all over Indonesia.
He said the poverty budget program and synergy had been interpreted into three poverty alleviation program clusters.
In the first cluster the government provided social assistance and security to less-well-to-do families or the targeted group, in the second cluster the government offered community-based program and budget under the National Self-Reliant Community Empowerment Program(PNPM), and in the third cluster, the government empowered the micro, small and medium enterprises (UMKM), including the improvement of the business environment and the provision of Small-holder Business Credit (KUR).
The president made the statement in his State-of-the-Nation Address on the Draft 2009 State Budget and Financial Notes at a House of Representatives (DPR) plenary session here Friday.
Yudhoyono said the open unemployment rate in February 2006 was 10.5 percent but it had dropped to 8.5 percent in February this year.
By the same token, Yudhoyono said, the poverty level had also dropped from 17.7 percent in 2006 to 15.4 percent in March 2008, and the poverty figure in 2008 was the lowest ever, both in terms of its size and percentage, in the last 10 years.
"There is also a declining trend in the poverty figure even if we use the poverty figure criteria of the World Bank, and this has been a concrete achievement for which we should be grateful," Yudhoyono said.
"I would like to express my thanks to all the parties concerned, including governors, district heads and mayors all over the country, who have toiled hard for this," he added.
In the context of speeding up the lowering of the poverty level, the president said the government had embarked on a harmonization and synergy program and budget for poverty alleviation at the central level, which was concretely carried out all over Indonesia.
He said the poverty budget program and synergy had been interpreted into three poverty alleviation program clusters.
In the first cluster the government provided social assistance and security to less-well-to-do families or the targeted group, in the second cluster the government offered community-based program and budget under the National Self-Reliant Community Empowerment Program(PNPM), and in the third cluster, the government empowered the micro, small and medium enterprises (UMKM), including the improvement of the business environment and the provision of Small-holder Business Credit (KUR).
