Poverty and Social Protection in Indonesia

Joan Hardjono · Nuning Akhmadi · Sudarno Sumarto

2010年1月 · Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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This book consists of papers that present the findings of research done by the SMERU Research Institute in Jakarta, Indonesia. Most describe the effects on the poor of the Indonesian economic crisis of 1997-98 and the response of the Indonesian government in the form of a Social Safety Net consisting of poverty mitigation programs. With the gradual recovery of the economy after 2000, the Indonesian government began reducing subsidies for fuel products and has channelled budgetary savings into a new series of targeted social protection and poverty alleviation undertakings that include unconditional cash transfers. The effectiveness of Indonesia's poverty alleviation programs has, however, been reduced by the difficulty of targeting beneficiaries accurately because of a lack of reliable, up-to-date poverty figures. In many instances unsuitable targeting methodology has been compounded by bad governance at the local level, while the introduction of regional autonomy, accompanied by the decentralization of authority to the district level, has formed a further complicating factor.

作者简介

•Joan Hardjono is a freelance Senior Researcher living in Bandung and a member of SMERU's Board of Trustees.

•Nuning Akhmadi is External Affairs Officer at the SMERU Research Institute.

•Sudarno Sumarto was the Director of the SMERU Research Institute from 2001 to 2009. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at SMERU and Visiting Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University for 2009-2010.