#poor people

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President Yudhoyono holds closed-door meeting to discuss fuel subsidy

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held a closed-door meeting to discuss the results of a study on fuel subsidy ...

CPhI Southeast Asia Broadens Focus to Highlight Vibrant ASEAN Pharma Market

- Leading events organiser, UBM Live ( http://www.ubmlive.com/ ), announced today that CPhI Southeast Asia ( ...

Bill Gates Emphasizes Power of Goals and Measurement as Keys to Tackling Extreme Poverty

- In his fifth annual letter (http://billsletter.org ), Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates ...

Statistics agency: Number of poor population down

The number of poor population in Indonesia drops by 0.54 million or 540,000 until September 2012, according to the ...

Kolaka district administration renovates 1,101 houses

The Kolaka district administration in Southeast Sulawesi provinces said it renovated 1,101 houses of poor people to be ...

Government continues to reduce poverty rate

The government has reduced Indonesia`s poverty rate and will continue to do so until it brings the rate down to 8 ...

Indonesian fuel oil resilience still raises concern

Fuel oil resilience in Indonesia still raises concern and is left far behind that of other countries in Asia, such as ...

Subsidy may increase state budget by Rp70 trillion

Indonesian Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said the 2013 State Budget can increase by Rp70 trillion if consumption ...

Greater effort needed to eradicate cataract

Greater efforts are needed to eradicate cataracts, which still haunt the Indonesian people. A cataract can occur ...

CGAP Announces Winner of 2012 Photography Contest

- The winner of the 2012 CGAP Photo Contest is Yavuz Sariyildiz of Turkey. His photo won out over a record number of ...

Power rates to increase quarterly in 2013

The government will impose a quarterly 4-percent automatic power rate hike beginning January next year in an effort to ...

Indonesian govt groups poverty alleviation programmes under four clusters

The Government of Indonesia has implemented various programmes, grouped under four clusters, in its effort to ...

High per capita income no guarantee for prosperity

The relatively high per capita income of US$3,000 is no guarantee for the prosperity of all people as the economic gap ...

Govt needs to evaluate quality of economic growth: Legislator

The government needs to evaluate the country`s economic growth quality, particularly its effect on enhancing and ...

RI`s poverty level falls by 0.53 pct in March

The number of poor people in Indonesia dropped to 29.13 million in March 2012, about 890,000 less than the figures ...