INDONESIA

This report provides updated estimates of living income (family living expenses) and living wage for rural Lampung Province in Indonesia. The update for June 2024 takes into account inflation and changes in payroll deductions since the original Anker living wage study carried out in July 2023 (Hasyim et al., 2023).

This report provides updated estimates of family living expenses and living wage for three urban districts: South Tangerang in the province of Banten, and Garut and Subang in the province of West Java, in Indonesia. The update for 2024 takes into account inflation and changes in payroll deductions since the original Anker living wage study carried out in November 2023 (Pantja Pramudya et al., 2023).

This report provides updated estimates of living income (family living expenses) and living wage for rural Central Sulawesi, a major cocoa producing area in Indonesia. The update for June 2024 takes into account inflation and changes in payroll deductions since the original Anker living wage study carried out in October 2022 (Kadarusman et al., 2022).

The report on estimating a living income for coffee farmers in Aceh, Indonesia, was com missioned by the International Coffee Organization (ICO), under the aegis of its larger work with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Trade, Indonesia Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute (ICCRI) and Sustainable Coffee Platform of Indonesia (SCOPI). Indonesia is the fourth largest producer and exporter of coffee in the world. Aceh was selected as the tar get research area because the province is the third largest producer among provinces in Indonesia and it was also prioritized as a target area for research by both the Government and the other main stakeholders. The living income is defined as an income required by a household in this case for a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 children) to attain a decent standard of living. The estimation process utilized the Anker Methodology®, and determined the basic costs of the necessary items required for decent living, i.e., food for a nutritious and balanced diet, healthy and safe housing, non-food-non-housing (NFNH) items, and contingency expenses. The findings of the report suggest an estimate of living income, for households living in the two regencies of Bener Meriah and Aceh Tengah in Aceh province, of IDR 5,362,819 (USD 337) per month (IDR 64,353,828 or USD 4,044 per year) for the refer ence family size. The Living Income was found to be more than double the family income at the Aceh province poverty line and the World Bank poverty line for a lower middle income country and 20% higher than the World Bank poverty line for an upper middle-income country. However, it is estimated to be 1% lower than gross income before payroll deductions that a typical size family of 4 with 1.565 full-time workers would earn at rural Aceh province’s minimum wage

This report estimated the living income for farming households in rural Rembang Regency in the province of Central Java, Indonesia. This was estimated using the Anker Methodology with the focus on the main tobacco growing areas in the regency. The living income was estimated to be IDR 5,332,004 (USD 335) per month as of July 2024 for a typical size family of 4 (2 adults and 2 dependants) based on information from the Population Census, demo graphic surveys and various publications of the Federal Bureau of Statistics of Indonesia (i.e. BPS-Badan Pusat Statistik)