12.5 percent of Jakartans poor

12.5 percent of Jakartans poor

JAKARTA: Twelve percent of people in Jakarta are poor, a
survey conducted by the city chapter of the National Family
Planning Board (BKKBN) says.

Haryono Suyono, head of the central office of BKKBN, told a
seminar on population that its survey in February this year found
that of a total of 1,429,000 families in the city, about 114,290
were poor.

Antara reported that the number of people living in Jakarta
was not tallied, but the Central Bureau of Statistic estimated
that the city population was 8.2 million.

During the day, however, the population can reach more than 12
million as many people living in the city buffer zones of Bogor,
Tangerang, Bekasi and Depok work in the capital. --JP