This study explores the progress of and the challenges to poverty eradication programs in Indonesia by analyzing various social assistance programs and subsidies. Earlier poverty eradication programs such as food-based assistance and energy subsidies were only designed to increase households’ purchasing power. Later, the government also developed more advanced programs, such as conditional cash transfer, school assistance, and health insurance contribution assistance, to address long-run poverty by improving human capital quality. Common challenges of the existing programs remain, including inaccurate target the poor and lack of complementarity between programs. An exercise using a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium model shows that integrating programs into the conditional cash transfer reduces poverty further in rural and urban areas.

本研究通过分析各种社会援助计划和补贴，探讨印度尼西亚消除贫困计划的进展和挑战。早期的消除贫困计划，例如基于食物的援助和能源补贴，只是为了提高家庭的购买力。后来，政府还制定了更先进的计划，例如有条件的现金转移、学校援助和医疗保险缴费援助，以通过提高人力资本质量来解决长期贫困问题。现有计划的共同挑战仍然存在，包括针对穷人的不准确和计划之间缺乏互补性。使用动态可计算一般均衡模型的练习表明，将计划纳入有条件现金转移支付可以进一步减少农村和城市地区的贫困。