Since the late 1990s, Indonesia has been working to improve its economy through government intervention. This has included a number of measures to control the economy, which has seen mixed success.
One of the main goals of the Indonesian government in controlling the economy has been to reduce poverty. Over the past two decades, there has been a significant reduction in poverty, with the rate dropping from 34 percent in 2002 to 10 percent in 2016. This has been largely …