Poverty And Unemployment

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both statistics for each country seen relative high, Indonesian measurement focus on basic commodities such as rice as being in poverty is having not enough money to obtain a basket of goods consisting of food, which is 2100 capita per day. Additional measurements include the ‘chronic poor’, the ‘transient poor’ and the ‘vulnerable’ consisting of people who either are constantly in poverty and can not afford basic foodstuffs, in and out of poverty or could be in poverty (Leonor, 1985).


Poverty Category
1996
1999
Change
Poor:
- Transient Poor 12.4 17.9 5.5
- Chronic Poor 3.2 9.5 6.3
- Total 15.6 27.4 11.8

High Vulnerability:
- Low Level of Consumption 4.7 13.4 8.7
- High Variability of Consumption 2.1 5.0 2.9
- Total 6.8 18.4 11.6

Total Vulnerable Group 18.1 33.7 15.6
Average Vulnerability to Poverty 16.4 27.2 10.8
Source: Suryahadi, S. & Sumarno, S. (2001) ‘The Chronic Poor, the Transient Poor and the Vulnerable in Indonesia before and after the Crisis’, SMERU working paper.

Figure 1 indicates that between 1996 and 1999 the measurements of Chronic, Transient and Vulnerable Poor increased by approximately 11 per cent. In comparison to this, Australia’ s poverty measurements comprise of Henderson’s measureme...