Malang, East Java, May 2 -- Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf provided details on two strategies initiated by President Prabowo Subianto to eliminate extreme poverty.

The first strategy is improving the data system, he informed.

"The President has initiated data improvement, which is already being carried out and measured by Statistics Indonesia (BPS)," he expounded on Friday.

After the BPS publishes the single data, his party will conduct a verification to confirm the actual number of people living in extreme poverty.

"We will update it. There are still around seven million people whose whereabouts are unknown or whose identity number is no longer active. We are trying to identify them," Yusuf disclosed.

He said that data cert...