Children play in the West Flood Canal area, Jakarta. The general, protracted slowdown in economic activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to poverty alleviation and increasing inequality, according to World Bank Vice President for East Asia and Pacific Victoria Kwakwa. Meanwhile, several countries in the East Asia and Pacific region whose assistance is still smaller than the loss of people's income, the stimulus has not been fully able to overcome the lack of demand. Indonesia's poor population is 26.42 million out of a population of more than 270 million, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts business activities in Indonesia, 2.67 million people lost their jobs, according to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).

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