The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced the poverty rate figures as of September 2016. According to BPS records, the number of impoverished people in Indonesia decreased by 250,000 to 27.76 million. Furthermore, the poverty line increased by an average of approximately 2.15 percent between March 2016 and September 2016. For rural areas, the poverty line was set at Rp 350,420. For urban areas, it was Rp 372,114.
Food contributed significantly to the poverty line. In September 2016, food commodities accounted for 73.19%. This is not significantly different from the March 2016 figure of 73.5%. The poverty line is used as a threshold to categorize the population as poor or non-poor. Poor individuals are those whose average per capita monthly expenditure falls below the poverty line.
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