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This research report focuses on the everyday life of manusia gerobak in Jatinegara. This subject matter arose due to the fact that the ways poverty was interpreted, mainly its causes, were dominated by two theoretical approaches, they being the culture of poverty and structural poverty.

The media is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in affecting individual behavior. In this paper, we examine the effect of the expansion of commercial television broadcasting on fertility in Indonesia.

Economic inequality in Indonesia has been on the rise and recently reached a record high level of 0.41 measured in the Gini index of household consumption expenditure. Not only economically, the issue of rising inequality is also socially and politically important as it may harm societal stability, especially in large, diverse and young democracy plagued by widespread poverty and vulnerability amid rising expectations.


The SMERU family offers its deepest condolences on the passing of ibu Zohra Andi Baso, member of the Board of Trustees of The SMERU Foundation on 15 March 2015 in Makassar.