KARANG JATI, Indonesia - On a dry and dusty sports field in central Java, Indonesian men dressed as traditional warriors take turns to battle with wooden staves, while village women crowd around, ...

Indonesia will distribute state land to 1 million of its poorest households under a new agrarian reform targeting extreme ...

ZANEGI, Papua, Indonesia, September 3, 2013 (ENS) – The village of Zanegi in Merauke Regency of Papua Province, Indonesia, lies desolate and silent, in contrast to the rumble and drone of bulldozers ...

The Indonesian government is stepping up empowerment programs as a key strategy to reduce extreme poverty, Coordinating ...

A viral story about a bereaved Indonesian father from Ciledug District in the city of Tangerang is a heart-rending tale of poverty in a country that dreams of achieving developed status by 2030.

This study investigates the effect of parental aspirations gap on children’s educational attainment between 2007 and 2014, using two waves of Indonesian Family Life Survey data. The aspirations gap is ...

The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2019), pp. 573-597 (25 pages) Centralized targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries.