Poor people say: When you laugh, you’re rich. There’s something to it. Our Sages already teach us that who has 50 wants 100; who has 100 wants 200; who has 200 wants 400.

Using complimentary stereotyping, such as believing those at the bottom of the social hierarchy are poor but happy. People can justify the status quo in a more socially palatable way.

In Indonesia, severe floods in April 2023 struck Central Kalimantan Province, impacting 16,234 people. Numerous homes and public buildings were also affected. In our research , we looked at how ...

Rastra, Indonesia’s national food aid program, is more effective when the poor use debit cards at grocery stories rather than receiving bags of food sent to their homes, according to an MIT J ...

The Indonesian government has focused on overcoming all the problems faced by Indonesians in the extremely poor category, adding that the aid will be provided in three stages.

Indonesia’s Gini Ratio Index, she said, is the lowest in the last decade at 0.379. “Our Gini coefficient has started to improve,” said the minister. Earlier, economist from the Bright Institute, ...

The group also sang a song in Bahasa Indonesia, the national language, and the pope seemed to enjoy it, Vitarsa added. The participants included nine beneficiaries of Sant’Egidio Community’s services, ...

Helping marine biodiversity flourish is a means of participating in God’s work, says an Indonesian theologian. Indonesia is the largest archipelagic nation in the world. It’s made up of an ...