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JAKARTA, July 18 (Xinhua) -- The number of poor people in Indonesia has decreased recent years as inflation has been in check and labor's payment hiked.
The national statistic bureau said on Monday that the poverty rate in March this year fell to 10.86 percent to 28.01 million people from 11.22 percent or 28.59 million people in the same period last year.
In March 2014, the rate was recorded at 11.25 percent or 28.28 million people, head of the bureau Suryamin said.
Consumer prices index dropped to 3.35 percent last year from 8.36 percent in the previous year, according to data from the bureau.
For this year, inflation is expected to accelerate at 3 to 5 percent, the country's central bank has said.
The economy is forecast to expand at 5.2 percent this year and 5.3 to 5.9 percent next year, Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro has revealed.
President Joko Widodo, who came into office in October 2014, has declared a plan of massive infrastructure projects across the archipelago country to smooth flows of goods and create more jobs as he aims for over 7-percent GDP growth at the end of his five-year term. Enditem
