JAKARTA - Cigarettes are recorded as the second largest contributor to poverty in Indonesia. According to Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) data released on Monday (15/7), cigarettes are ranked second after rice in a list of commodities that significantly affect poverty.
BPS data records cigarettes’ contribution to poverty at 12.22% in urban areas and 11.36% in rural areas, second only to rice whose contribution is recorded at 20.59% in urban areas and 25.97% in rural areas.
BPS also records that the percentage of people living in poverty in Indonesia as of March 2019 amount to 9.41%, down 0.25% from September 2018 and 0.41% year on year. In total, as of March 2019 25.14 million people in Indonesia live in poverty, with the highest percentage living in Papua at 27.53%. (MS)
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