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Several developing nations, including Indonesia, have experimented with conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to poor households during recent years. Since 2007, Indonesia has been carrying out a randomized CCT pilot program (PNPM Generasi) in 1,625 villages where funds are disbursed to communities rather than households, and local councils allocate the funds to public projects following community input.
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.
