Our Expertise
- Inequality has been on the rise on Indonesia during the last decade
- Consumption inequality (inequality on how much households spend) affects future economic growth
- Increases in education inequality (inequality on levels of educational attainment) have dire consequences for future unemployment rate
- Rising inequality poses significant risk for the economy and human development
While the Government of Indonesia has made international commitments to achieve universal basic education by 2015, there are still many issues surrounding education which go beyond the issue of access; these include, in particular, issues of equity and quality. In order to deal with these problems, the government needs to be able to rely on the availability of evidence-based recommendations drawn from sound research.
This report presents the field verification results for poverty maps of Jakarta, East Java, and East Kalimantan. The results show that the poverty maps created in this pilot study have been successful in ranking regions according to their poverty conditions, particularly at the district and subdistrict levels.
This report presents the results of a pilot study to apply a recently developed technique for obtaining high-resolution poverty maps, using data from three provinces in Indonesia: Jakarta, East Java, and East Kalimantan.
