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        "id": 1820385,
        "msgid": "prabowo-puzzled-indonesias-economy-grows-yet-poverty-deepens-1782269482",
        "date": "2026-06-24 08:43:16",
        "title": "Prabowo Puzzled: Indonesia's Economy Grows, Yet Poverty Deepens",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK_BALI",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Economy",
        "summary": "President Prabowo Subianto has expressed bewilderment over Indonesia's economic paradox, where consistent GDP growth of around 5% over seven years has coincided with rising poverty and a shrinking middle class. He argues that the anomaly indicates the benefits of growth are being captured by a select few, signalling a flawed economic system.",
        "content": "<p>Indonesia\u2019s economy has reportedly grown at an average rate of 5%\nover the last seven years. However, during the same period, the number\nof people living in poverty has actually increased and the middle class\nhas contracted. President Prabowo Subianto expressed astonishment at\nthis anomaly, stating that something is wrong with the economic\nsystem.<\/p>\n<p>Prabowo said that logically, Indonesia\u2019s wealth should have increased\nby about 35% over the seven-year period. Yet, the data he received two\nmonths after officially taking office showed a different reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLogically, over seven years Indonesia should have become 35% richer,\nbut the reality, this data emerged two months after I became president.\nThe reality is, after seven years of 5% growth, how can the number of\npoor people increase?\u201d Prabowo said during the closing of the National\nConference of Religious Scholars and the Grand Conference of Nahdlatul\nUlama, broadcast via the Presidential Secretariat\u2019s YouTube channel on\nTuesday (23\/6\/2026), as reported by detikFinance.<\/p>\n<p>According to Prabowo, the anomaly is not only visible in the rising\nnumber of poor people. The middle-class group that had previously\nescaped poverty is also shrinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country is getting richer, but the poor are increasing. This is\nsomething strange, an anomaly. The middle class that had previously\nescaped poverty is declining. They say the country is 30% richer, yet\nthe poor are increasing and the middle class is shrinking,\u201d he\nadded.<\/p>\n<p>Prabowo assessed that this condition indicates that the fruits of\neconomic growth are being enjoyed by only a handful of people. He\ntherefore stressed the need to fix an economic system that has failed to\ndistribute the benefits of growth equitably.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is also what we must be wary of: that those who are getting\nricher are only a select few. So, we must see that this means our system\nis wrong, this system is wrong. Because if the poor are increasing and\nthe middle class is also shrinking, it means that only a handful of\npeople are enjoying this growth,\u201d Prabowo asserted.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/prabowo-puzzled-indonesias-economy-grows-yet-poverty-deepens-1782269482",
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