Poverty in the capital city has decreased by 0.05 percent or as many as 3,630 people to 498.29 thousand as of September 2021.
JAKARTA | KBA – The poverty rate in DKI Jakarta based on data from the DKI Jakarta Central Statistics Agency (BPS) was recorded at 4.67 percent or 498.29 thousand people in the September 2021 period.
This figure shows that poverty in the capital city has decreased by 0.05 percent or as many as 3,630 people to 498.29 thousand as of September 2021.
Head of BPS DKI Jakarta Anggoro Dwitjahyono said the poverty reduction rate in Jakarta for this period was lower than in March 2021, which reached 501.92 thousand.
“After a year of a pandemic that has caused the poverty rate to rise, for the first time the poverty rate in Jakarta has fallen,” said Anggoro Dwitjahyono in a press statement received by KBA News in Jakarta, Tuesday, January 18, 2022.
According to Anggoro, the reduction in poverty in Jakarta is inseparable from the Government’s efforts to maintain price stability, and the increase in people’s purchasing power due to rising incomes in general.
He explained that price stability was shown by a stable inflation rate in the March-September 2021 period, reaching 0.26 percent, even for several months there was deflation so that the poor were still able to buy goods for basic needs.
Meanwhile, the increase in purchasing power was indicated by the average per capita expenditure of the poor which increased by Rp11,282 from Rp684,367 to Rp695,649.
Meanwhile, improving economic growth has an impact on the growth of the new workforce in the period August 2020 to August 2021, employment in Jakarta reduces 42,000 unemployed.
In that period, employment absorbed 36 thousand new workers, bringing a total of 78 thousand labor absorptions in Jakarta. Of this total, 46 thousand workers are in the formal sector.
Social assistance programs by the Central Government and DKI Jakarta Provincial Government also reduce the risk of becoming poor. BPS records the poor twice a year, in March and September.
To measure poverty, BPS uses the concept of ability to meet basic needs referring to World Bank standards.
With this concept, poverty is seen as an inability from an economic point of view to meet basic food and non-food needs as measured from the expenditure side. (kba)
