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An Economic and Social Review on Indonesia’s Direct Cash Transfer Program to Poor Families in 2005

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  • Muliadi Widjaja

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This paper contains a report on the findings of a survey on the implementation of the Direct Cash Transfers (Bantuan Langsung Tunai) program. The survey named Susenas (National Socio-Economic Survey) was held across Indonesia in the aftermath of the program in 2006. The economic purpose of this government’s welfare program was to dampen the increasing rate of poverty incidence in Indonesia due to the increase of gas prices. Several issues featured in this paper are the achievement of the program in distributing the cash transfers;, how the recipients used the funds they received; the impact of the cash transfers on the recipients’ working behavior; the socialization method of the program; and finally, the problems that arose during the program’s implementation. The findings are that the program was not properly prepared and not properly organized; it achieves the goal in resisting the increase of poverty rate due to gas price increases.

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  • Muliadi Widjaja, 2013. "An Economic and Social Review on Indonesia’s Direct Cash Transfer Program to Poor Families in 2005," Working Papers in Economics and Business 201304, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia, revised Apr 2013.
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    1. Jacqueline Cottrell & Damian Ludewig & Matthias Runkel & Kai Schlegelmilch & Florian Zerzawy, 2017. "Environmental tax reform in Asia and the Pacific," MPDD Working Paper Series WP/17/05, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
    2. Lisa Cameron & Manisha Shah, 2014. "Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 62(2), pages 381-415.
    3. Martin Wiegand, 2020. "Welfare Measurement and Poverty Targeting Based on Participatory Wealth Rankings," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 20-086/V, Tinbergen Institute.
    4. Tohari, Achmad & Parsons, Christopher & Rammohan, Anu, 2017. "Targeting Poverty under Complementarities: Evidence from Indonesia's Unified Targeting System," IZA Discussion Papers 10968, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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    Keywords

    Cash Transfers; Welfare; Poverty;
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    JEL classification:

    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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