15 May 2020 Author: Anne Booth, SOAS It is now widely believed that the distribution of income in Indonesia has become more skewed since the fall of Suharto in 1998. Even commentators who extoll positive economic developments post-Suharto accept that Indonesia’s upper income groups are doing better than its poorest. Others who are more sceptical of reformasi ’s achievements argue that inequalities are now much worse than under Suharto. In the 2016 report Indonesia’s Rising Divide , the World Bank claimed that ‘inequality in Indonesia is rising rapidly’, and that the increase in the Gini coefficient of household consumption expenditure in the 1990s and the 2000s was one of the highest in the Asia. Data on the share of total wealth owned by the top one per cent of households published by Credit Suisse shows that Indonesia had one of the most skewed distributions in the world in 2014, surpassed only by Thailand and Russia. Other analysts tend to support ...
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