Jakarta, June 12 -- Chairman of the National Economic Council (DEN) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan announced a plan to revise Indonesia's poverty rate calculation method.

The DEN has started evaluating the poverty line figures and will submit its report to President Prabowo Subianto.

"Based on our discussion, we saw the need to revise it," Pandjaitan stated at the International Conference on Infrastructure (ICI) 2025 in Jakarta, Thursday.

He confirmed DEN will coordinate with Statistics Indonesia (BPS) during the evaluation, though a completion target wasn't specified.

The move follows the World Bank's recent update to its poverty rate calculation, which now uses 2021 purchasing power parity (PPP) data.

This adjustment increased the poverty...