According to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) report, as of March 2025, there were 23.85 million poor people in Indonesia, equivalent to 8.47% of the total population.
This poverty figure is lower than in March of the previous year and is the lowest in the last decade, both in terms of number and percentage.
At the beginning of this year, the majority of Indonesia's poor population resided on Java Island, particularly in the provinces of East Java, West Java, and Central Java.
Cumulatively, the number of poor people in these three Javanese provinces reached 10.9 million, almost half or 46% of the total national poor population.
The following is a breakdown of the number of poor people in Indonesia's 38 provinces as of March 2025, listed in descending order:
- East Java: 3.88 million people
- West Java: 3.65 million people
- Central Java: 3.37 million people
- North Sumatra: 1.14 million people
- East Nusa Tenggara: 1.09 million people
- South Sumatra: 919,600 people
- Lampung: 887,020 people
- Banten: 772,780 people
- Aceh: 704,690 people
- South Sulawesi: 698,130 people
- West Nusa Tenggara: 654,570 people
- Jakarta: 464,870 people
- Riau: 460,960 people
- Yogyakarta: 425,820 people
- Central Sulawesi: 356,190 people
- Papua Pegunungan: 337,320 people
- West Kalimantan: 330,950 people
- West Sumatra: 312,350 people
- Southeast Sulawesi: 304,430 people
- Central Papua: 302,310 people
- Maluku: 287,760 people
- Jambi: 270,940 people
- Bengkulu: 252,970 people
- East Kalimantan: 199,710 people
- North Sulawesi: 173,840 people
- Bali: 173,240 people
- South Kalimantan: 172,720 people
- Papua: 171,380 people
- Gorontalo: 162,740 people
- West Sulawesi: 152,310 people
- Central Kalimantan: 147,800 people
- Riau Islands: 117,280 people
- West Papua: 106,900 people
- South Papua: 105,530 people
- Southwest Papua: 103,570 people
- Bangka Belitung Islands: 77,710 people
- North Maluku: 77,270 people
- North Kalimantan: 42,570 people