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This study aims to gain a deep understanding of the characteristics of poverty and disparities experienced by children living in poor households in urban areas, and factors affecting their experience, seen from the perspective of the children.
The objective of this study is to obtain a description of child well-being, caregiving arrangements, and child caregiving practices in both poor migrant and non-migrant families in two migrant sending districts, namely Kabupaten Banyumas and Kabupaten Lombok Tengah. This description is followed by an explanation of government and community support, especially for poor children who were left by their migrant mothers.
This chapter reviews social security development in Indonesia, which has evolved from providing very little in its early years, to a system that benefited only formal sector workers, to universal coverage. There are two important milestones in this development. First, starting in the mid-1960s, the New Order government gradually developed various social security schemes, albeit limited to the formal sector.
This study aims to compare the effectiveness of the Families First with Home Visitation Program (FFHVP) program among caregivers of young children in selected communities in Cianjur District, Indonesia.
The SMERU Research Institute—supported by The Ford Foundation—launches the 2015 Indonesian Poverty and Livelihood Map, which offers poverty estimates in all the villages/kelurahan in the country (more than 75,000 villages/kelurahan).

