Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Indonesia was no longer categorized as a poor, but middle class developing country, with a per capita income of US$2,000, double that 10 years ago.

"The per capita income of US$2,000 is a four times increase in the last ten years," he said.

According to him, the gross domestic product of Rp4,000 trillion and a per capita income of US$2,000, indicated that Indonesia was no longer a poor but a medium class developing country.

However, he said prices of some daily nessaries in Indonesia were still increasing like cooking oil, soybean and wheat flour.

"These price hikes are the impact of the world economic situation, including increased prices of world oil, soybean and some others commodities," he said.

In view of these price hikes, the government could not carry out large-scale development projects like building more toll roads and raise power supply by 2,000 megawatts annually, he said.

It was also a fact that each budget that had been approved by the House of Representatives was mostly allocated to pay foreign debts, debt interests and subsidy, totalling Rp300 trillion annually.

However, generally the Indonesian economy has been steadly improving compared to the situation ten years ago following the crisis.

"I believed that without a current world oil price hikes, Indonesia`s economic growth could reach eight percent a year," he said.

According to him, a country will win the respect of the internaional community if it has a strong economy.(*)

source:http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2008/3/11/veep-indonesia-no-longer-poor-country/

Thanks for the info

If Indonesia could shake off its dependence on foreign oil, the situation would be vastly improved.

Yet the Indonesian spend billions in arms defence to happily opening another foreign debt account. then squeak why they still lagging behind.duh

Why you're scared we spend too much ?? Too bad it's not your business...

apparently the freaking VP Ucup Kalla lumped the people together with him
not poor? yeah riiiiite!!!
he's getting richer & the people?
him & his cronies especially Bakrie & who sinks an entire community under hot mud!

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I'm curious where did JK (Jusuf Kalla) cite his source? To be honest, I doubt that Indonesia has indeed become a middle class country. I agree that the Indonesian middle class are steadily growing, but have they finally overwhelmed the lower class?

That's not really an excuse lol

AH Kalla dasar juragan catut. dari dulu sebelom merdeka Indonesia juga a rich country, we neva eva a poor country.
negara kita selalu kaya, cuman rakyatnya yg miskin. we are a super rich muda fuka country with a supa dupa poor citizen.

gimana Kalla? kalo hasil bumi udah abis di kerok silahkan jual pulaunya.....
tak kutuk kau biar patekan sumur idup

BANDUNG--MI: Wakil Presiden Jusuf Kalla yakin Indonesia tidak bakal kolaps, jika harga minyak terus naik karena Indonesia kaya dengan sumber energi lain, komoditas dan mineral.

Keyakinan Wapres tersebut disampaikan di hadapan sekitar 750 peserta dalam acara Tepang Saudagar Tatar Sunda di Gedung Pertemuan Bank Indonesia, Bandung (23/3).

"Meski harga minyak naik sampai US$100 dollar, kita tidak akan kolap," kata Wapres dalam acara yang juga dihadiri Kepala Bappenas Paskah Suzetta, Gubernur BI Burhanuddin Abdullah dan Gubernur Jawa Barat Danny Setyawan.

Wapres menyatakan negara-negara yang tidak memiliki kekayaan energi yang bakal menemui kesulitan berat seperti Philipina dan Thailand.

Sedangkan Indonesia memiliki kekayaan alam yang lengkap. Bahkan yang menjadi kelemahan dunia justru menjadi keunggulan Indonesia.

"Dunia kesulitan energi, komoditi dan mineral. Sementara kita punya semua," jelas Wapres.

Di bidang energi misalnya, selain memiliki minyak, Indonesia juga menghasilkan gas dan batu bara. Demikian juga Indonesia memiliki komoditi yang dibutuhkan dunia seperti minyak sawit dan karet.

"Mineral lengkap disini mulai besi, alumina, tembaga dan mangan," tuturnya.

Wapres juga menyatakan Indonesia sudah lepas dari krisis yang membenamkan Indonesia pada 1997. Dia merujuk Pendapatan Domestik Bruto (PDB) Indonesia yang sudah mencapai US$ 2.000 jauh diatas PDB saat krisis yang hanya US$600. (Fud/OL-2)

Scared is not the word. You need more than KRI Tanjung Dalpele ships to send your army. Apparently we are concern of the poorer indonesian.what actually they will benefit from more arm purchases?Trading rice with bullets?That's your economic strategies?Then Indonesian should say hello back to 1997 regression very very soon

since when Indonesia forumer asking your opinion?
trading bullet with rice ke, kri dalpele ke, economic strategies ke, its Indonesian internal matter. if you opinion so right why dont you work for your gov rather than wasting your time here.

Lagipula, sejak kapan sih Indonesia miskin, sebenarnya? Apa sih yang gak ada di tanah air? Salju abadi aja ada.

Kita ini gak pernah miskin, hanya salah manajemen. Makanya beras aja sampai perlu impor...

Duh. what's spinning your head. I don't need your permission to speak what i want where i want.speaking of so-called freedom of speech, what, you can't handled criticism?you should rectify your fault with better mechanism and solution rather than bit*ching whenever somebody voicing out

Indonesia is the 3rd largest democracy in the world and this fact cannot be denied.

this is kinda like arroyo's 'philippines is not a third world country anymore...' talk a while back.

"the true measurement of development is not how much GDP, but how much hospital beds a country have"

hehehe....whos spinning now baby???!!!
so since when you know about freedom of speach? hahaha...
remember remember....its ISA freedom of speach, talk about freedom of speach when you experience one
specialy in Malaysia, or should I say wait till Anwar in the helm.

dont talk trading bullet with rice before you check your own messy hands, look at the petronas in sudan.
now pull those hands out of your @$$ and go play like a normal boy.
and stop talking to your hands, its a very very bad habit.

how about corruption? are we still on top? heh? heh?
at least we are top on something...hehehe

No I dont think so.. PERC published the latest survey corruption rank in 13 Asian countries. Indonesia scored better than last year,
while thailand and philippines are among the most corrupted economies.

^^ no we're not on top....
we're much better now...

how then I can still easily find pak ogah everywhere in customs, immigration office, and some Depdiknas offices? The same as 5 years ago?

I said we're much better now I never said we completely wipe it off.
those kind of things will never go away until we are much much more prosperous than we are now.
They need to feed their family too but at least we're not on top anymore.

Those who made in on top are philippines, thailand, and china respectively.

^^ ahh thank you for backing me up with evidence.
I just cbb searching for it.

Yeah we doing better than the crisis era, but poverty still alive and well here.... sigh.

Just ride Argo Gede train and the picture is not all good and pretty. Some parts of outer Jakarta and even in downtown Jakarta still has lots of filthy slums. Really felt concern about that, coz a bules in front of me take photograph of this ugly face of Jakarta.

Why the OT dude?not a single word that answered my previous question?unanswerable?or simply trying hard to hide the obvious fact?get back with the real answer.be a man .

Man.that one hell of corruption.when the one supposed to guard our interest rob our interest.

Indonesia is no longer poor country,
but indonesia is capitalist country without mercy,
keep making tall building to cover this kind of problem.


gas shortage,
this is how big company able to buy commercial LPG, in large amount.
while those poor ppl supposed to be a priority.




Pengusaha Ikut Borong Elpiji untuk Rumah Tangga

Jember - Selama sepekan terakhir, kalangan pengusaha hotel dan restoran Jember memborong elpiji berukuran 12 kilogram. Aksi borong ini dilakukan karena tabung elpiji berukuran 56 kilogram yang biasa mereka gunakan menghilang dari pasaran.

Menurut Wakil Ketua Himpunan Swasta Nasional Minyak dan Gas Bumi-Wilayah Eks Karesidenan Besuki, Benny Satria, pengalihan ukuran tabung gas yang dibeli tersebut turut menyedot gas yang biasa dibeli oleh rumah tangga. Ia mengungkapkan, tak ada larangan bagi para pengusaha mengalihkan dari ukuran besar ke ukuran 12 kg.

Tidak ada aturan yang melarang, apalagi gas ukuran tabung 56 kilo yang biasa mereka gunakan tidak ada," kata Benny ketika ditemui dirumahnya, Kelurahan Sambisari, Jember, Kamis (3/4/2008).

Namun, diakuinya, para pengusaha tersebut memang harus berebut dengan golongan rumah tangga. Sementara itu pasokan gas di sejumlah distributor di Kabupaten Jember dalam tiga minggu terakhir terbatas.

Menurut salah seorang petugas distributor gas di Jember, Purnomo rata-rata dalam sehari tempatnya mendapatkan pasokan 400 tabung gas. "Tetapi sekarang 400 tabung gas untuk dua hari atau 200 tabung gas perharinya," kata Purnomo.

Terbatasnya pasokan gas tersebut disebabkan adanya pembatasan pasokan gas dari Pertamina pusat.

"Jadi kita harus benar-benar teliti dan adil dalam mengedarkan gas. Agar tidak terjadi kelangkaan gas di Jember," ujarnya.
http://www.detikfinance.com/index.ph...7725/idkanal/4

^ lol through a grenn view, it's good we have a gas shortage....thus we produce less carbon emissions. lol just my thoughts

Oh come on, Mr VP. Just because you and your friends are prosperous, doesn't mean the rest of Indonesians are that way too
A rich country with poor citizens... when is going to end?

^^ the poor will always be with us. Fairness and justice do not exist in this world. It will only exist when the sky and the earth became one. (how can it be fair when the sky is above the earth? why not the other way round?)

My boss with the chimney sweep company was walking upside down, on the ceiling with a harness on, and he told us we had the wrong orientation.

cant you see the point? that I dont want to talk to you.
if you want me to talk to you like a man, its require for you to grow up first.
and stop whining like a b!tch in medieval time. which end up being gagged
and put into iron maiden. now pull that finger out your @$$, silly boy.

You guys, this is "serious talk" section....

Yeah, they really enjoy our slums, smiling when they make those pictures. To show their friends in their own coutries "how all Indonesians are living". Selama kita terus belum berdisiplin dan buang sampah dimana2, buang air kecil/besar di tempat umum, mereka terus dapat kesempatan untuk kertawain kita.

Indonesia is very poor country..


per gdp 40,000$ over : very rich countries (Qator, UAE)

per gdp 30,000$ -- 39,999$ : Rich countries (Japan, Kuwait)

per gdp 20,000$ -- 29,999$ : Low rich countries (Hong Kong, Bahrain, South Korea)

per gdp 15,000$ -- 19,999$ : High middle countries (Saudi Arabia, Taiwan)

per gdp 10,000$ -- 14,999$ : Middle countries (oman)

per gdp 7,500$ -- 9,999$ : Low middle countries (Lebanon)

per gdp 5,000$ -- 7,499$ : Little poor countries (Malaysia)

per gpp 3,000$ -- 4,499$ : Poor countries (Thailand, Iran)

per gdp 1,000$ -- 2,499$ : Very poor countries (Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldive. etc)

per gdp 1,000$ low : starvation country (Laos, cambodia, vietnam. etc)


that is, indonesia is very poor country

^^^ we don't need a troll explaining about our country based on your source.
To be honest, I also thought that Indonesia is no longer a poor country
and the article says 30 million indonesian had $6000 gdp per capita
so its just a matter of population and the size of each country.

^hahaha I was going to say that "Troll" to him.

@Mahid: remember that we have the 4th biggest population. We'll be richer than Saudi Arabia if we only have a few million people, We have much more resources than SA (except maybe sand)and fortunately some of them are renewable.

babababababababababa

that ur indonesian per gdp becomes 1800$ now, it is because have cheap ur many population's labor power..

indonesia is the country that only cheap labor power is affluent because there are very much populations..


if indonesian populations are 20 million person levels, it may be same with nepal..

because u are a race is an inferior race..

what is ur country skill, tech ?? indonesia is no any skill and tech..

only have many cheap labor..

and what?

there are much populations, logic poor ?

then, if USA populations are 1 million people, does USA per gdp become 15,000,000$?

if india's populations are 10million people, does india per gdp become 100,000$?


or, if UK populations are 300 million people, is UK per gdp become 6,000$?

if chinese populations become 1million people, is Chinese per gdp 3,000,000$ then?


ur logic is entirely ignorant and stupid logic about economy..

also, it is speech of a stupid and inferior Indonesia race..

that current per gdp of Indonesia becomes 1,800$ is because there are many ur many people's numbers..

therefore


many indonesia laborer is that foreign companies make an investment in Indonesia as is many..

so, it is that indonesian per gdp becomes 1,800$..


If Indonesian populations were 20million people, it is country of per gdp 500$ like current nepal..

if Indonesia populations are 1 million people, it is same with Indonesia = east timor..

a east timor race is a same race with indonesia and stupid brain is same too..


do study about economy...stupid indonesian

and what does saudi arabia depend on for it's country to run? OIL!

so what will you do when the oil runs out? you guys will eventually go back to ancient times
where arabs ancestors used to dive on the sea just to find pearls for money!!

you stupid arab troll this is "indonesian" chat not "arabic" chat, if you wanted
to started a fight go to other forums, we don't welcome arabs here!!

^ LOL...
they would sell their send next after they finish their oil supplies. 100% pure Arabian Sand. lols