SBY Special Envoy Admits To Poverty Reduction, Increase Fuel T

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 23:06
Jakarta, Seruu.com - Special Envoy of the President for Poverty Reduction, Harbrinderjit Singh Dillon, said the rising prices of fuel oil (BBM) subsidy will increase the number of poor people in Indonesia. Although no hard data, he estimated the number of poverty increased 1.5 per cent of the population or 3.5 million people. Currently the number of poor people reached 30.02 million (12.49 percent).

"Quoting the World Bank that the data also suggested that rising inflation would not be up to 1 percent, due to budget savings the government is also quite large if the fuel goes up," said HS Dillon when contacted by reporters, Wednesday (07/3/2012).

According to him, anticipating the government to prevent a surge of poverty by providing compensation only temporarily and only reduce the additional suffering of the poor and vulnerable poor. "The most basic is the government's efforts are nothing more fundamental to the poor," he said.

He suggested that the government learned lessons from the neighboring country, Malaysia. In that country, there are laws that regulate traders or entrepreneurs. In Malaysia, businessmen and traders should not take excessive advantage. Should be a reasonable profit.

Another suggestion is that the government should start thinking about a lot of development in the sector involving the poor, such as agriculture and fisheries. Businesses in urban areas are also asked to no longer focus on small and medium enterprise sector, but the micro-enterprise.

"The government must prepare the poor to engage in business investment, particularly supporting the program MP3EI (Masterplan Economic Development Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia)," he said.

Anticipate that world oil prices continue to soar, the government plans to increase next April in fuel prices to Rp 6,000 per liter. Steps were taken to reduce the subsidy burden on the State Budget of 2012. The Government proposes increase in fuel coincided with an electric base rate increase.


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