Household Socio-Economic Survey 2008: Baseline (Indonesia)

Abstract

The alteration of social targetting toward poor society has become the main priority in many countries for the last two decades as the answer for financial constraint and changing policy to increase program efectivness in fighting against poverty. Indonesian government has implemented a number of anti-poberty programs in large scale during the last couple years which have helped reduce poverty. Such programs are Direct Cash Aid (BLT), Conditional Cash Aid (BTB) and Health Insurance (Askeskin). Targetting improvement on those programs which is intended to guarantee the limited resources to be delivered to the right households, the poor households, instead of the have ones, becomes a continuous challange to guarantee the eficiency of those programs.
Meeting the needs to increase the targetting result, National Planning Buro (BAPPENAS) has requested a technical fund to gain better system in targetting the poor households to the World Bank. The findings of this research will lead to new methods to identify poor households who deserve to receive any aid programs established by the government. This research is a colaboration between World Bank Of Jakarta (WBOJ), Bureau of Statistic Centre (BPS), and academic researchers of Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT)