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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 ...

Bali tourism not fully benefiting locals

Tourism development in Bali, Indonesia`s primary tourism province which contributes some 30 percent to the country`s ...

One billion people still in poverty by 2015 : World Bank

The World Bank has predicted that about one billion people in the world will still be stuck living at an extreme ...

Number of Indonesia's poor down 0.13 million

The number of Indonesians living under the poverty line in September 2011 was 29,89 million (12.36 percent of the ...

The Freeport Case, government's lost conscience

The Political and security situation in Papua is still heating up, beginning with the repeated shootings spree at ...

Poverty still to loom large in 2012

Despite the government`s continuous people`s welfare boosting efforts, poverty is likely to continue looming large in ...

year-ender: RI to reform its budgeting system in 2012

The low capacity of government ministries and other agencies to absorb state budget funds often causes unspent public ...

Unspent budget projected up Rp30 trillion at year end

State Treasury Director General Agus Suprijanto said unspent state budget funds (SAL) which currently totaled Rp97 ...

World of "contradiction" awaits 7 billionth person

The world`s seven billionth person will be born Monday into what UN leader Ban Ki-moon calls a "world of ...

Convicted corrupters don`t deserve sentence reductions : Busyro

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chief Busyro Muqoddas said convicted corrupters did not need to be given nor ...

RI had 30.2 million poor people by March 2011 :BPS

The Central Bureau of Statistics or BPS has recorded the number of poor people in Indonesia until March 2011 at 30.02 ...

Interfaith figures call on people to fight "national bankruptcy"

A number of interfaith figures on Thursday called on the Indonesian people to rise to fight what they described as ...

Asean seeking food security amid surge in global prices

The current global food and energy price hikes have concerned President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as this year`s ASEAN ...