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Standard Project Report 2016
Country Context and WFP Objectives
Country Context
Indonesia is a lower middle-income country with a population of 255 million people. It achieved the Millennium
Development Goal 1 by halving the percentage of its population living in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. The
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) projected that undernourishment would decline from
19.7 percent in 1990–1992 to 7.6 percent in 2014–2016.
In 2000–2015, Indonesia's economy grew by an average of 5.3 percent per year to become the largest in Southeast
Asia. In the face of a global downturn, Indonesia's economy proved relatively resilient in 2015–2016 compared to
other countries reliant on commodities largely because of strong domestic consumption.
Indonesia ranked 72nd of 118 countries on the 2016 global hunger index of the International Food Policy Research
Institute, behind Cambodia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Viet Nam. According to the Global Nutrition
Report, Indonesia is on track to meet the World Health Assembly target on exclusive breasteeding but is behind
schedule on three targets: stunting (37.2 percent), wasting (12.1 percent) and over-weight (11.9 percent) among
children under five.
The Gini coefficient rose from 0.31 in 2003 to 0.40 in 2016, representing a heightened income inequality. The
proportion of people living in poverty declined from 18.2 percent in 2002 to 10.9 percent in 2016. Food price
stabilisation through food-based social assistance programmes and other cash transfers were the main factors for
the decrease in poverty in 2016. Poverty rates among households headed by men fell faster and further than those
for households headed by women.
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