According to the Institute for Demographic and Poverty Studies (IDEAS), the majority of poor farmers in Indonesia did not access financial services in 2024.
Among the poor population working in the rice and secondary crops, horticulture, and plantation agricultural sectors, IDEAS found that only 27.93% had access to financial products/services, such as banking, insurance, and fintech.
Furthermore, only 26.78% of poor farmers had savings accounts.
Meanwhile, only 6.83% accessed capital loans from state-owned enterprises (SOEs), specifically PT Permodalan Nasional Madani through the Fostering Prosperous Family Economy program (PNM-Mekaar).
The proportion of poor farmers accessing other types of financial services was even smaller, ranging from less than 5% down to 0.05%.
"This low financial inclusion indicates that most poor farmers do not have sufficient capital to finance their cultivation processes, which ultimately impacts their low productivity and income," IDEAS stated in its report.
"Farmers, especially poor farmers, complain about the difficulty of obtaining capital assistance like KUR due to complex administrative requirements, such as limited land ownership documents or other administrative prerequisites," they added.
Below are the details of poor farmers' access to financial services, credit, and capital assistance in Indonesia in 2024, according to IDEAS' findings:
Financial products/services (banking, insurance, financing institutions, pension funds, fintech)
Savings account
PNM-Mekaar
People's Business Credit (KUR)
Credit from cooperatives
Credit from commercial banks other than KUR
Pegadaian (State-owned Pawn Service)
Individuals with interest (private lenders)
Leasing companies
Village-owned enterprises (BUMDes)
Credit from Rural Banks (BPR)
Government capital facilities
Online loans
Other credits
IDEAS obtained these figures from an analysis of the results of the 2024 National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) released by Statistics Indonesia (BPS).