Central Kalimantan slashes poverty rate

Central Kalimantan slashes poverty rate

PALANGKA RAYA, C. Kalimantan: Central Kalimantan has had the
third most successful antipoverty campaign after Bali and
Jakarta.

Governor Warsito Rasman said yesterday the province's number
of families in poverty had fallen from 321,600 in 1993 to 189,400
last year. Therefore, the percentage of poor people among the
province's population of 1.63 million in 1995 had fallen from
20.85 percent to 11.21 percent.

The province's income per capita had increased from Rp 2.6
million to Rp 3 million in the last year, he said, adding that
the province was eliminating poverty by improving agricultural
production and other means. (swe)