5 1 TEGUH LPEM FEB UI

Fiscal Reforms in Indonesia:
Dealing with Poverty, Inequality and
Inclusive Growth
Hotel Grand Hya-, Nusa Dua - Bali
10-11 December 2015

Presented by:

Teguh Dartanto
Head of Poverty and Social ProtecAon Research Group, LPEM FEB UI

Outline PresentaAon
•  Stylized Facts of Poverty, Growth and
Inequality Triangle
•  Fiscal Reforms in 2015 and 2016
•  Reforms and Possible Impacts on Poverty,
Growth and Inequality
•  Concluding Remarks


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Present Path = Real Problem
Jobless
growth

Real
Problem
Rising
inequality

Declining
compeAAv
eness

Source: Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Project in Dartanto (2014)

70.00


0.45

60.00

0.40

50.00

0.35

40.00

0.30

30.00

0.25

20.00


0.20

10.00

0.15

0.00

0.10

-10.00

0.05

-20.00

0.00

Poverty Incidence


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Growth of GDP Per-Capita

InflaAon Rate

Investment (% of GDP)

Gini Index

Percent

Poverty, Growth, Inequality and Other Macroeconomic
Variables

Gini Index

Source: Author’s compilaCon based on BPS and World Development Indicators

4


Figure'4.'Income'Share'By'Percentile'
50!
45!

Income!share!held!
40!
by!lowest!10%!

35!

The lowest income
group is le_ behind
à divided society

Income!share!held! 30!
by!highest!10%!

25!
Income!share!held! 20!

by!lowest!20%!

15!

Income!share!held!
by!highest!20%!

10!
5!
0!
1984!

1990!

1996!

1999!

2005!


2010!

2011!

!
Ratio!between!the!highest!
10%!and!the!lowest!10%!
Ratio!between!the!highest!
20%!and!the!lowest!20%!

6,66!

5,92!

6,64!

5,90!

7,77!


8,39!

9,52!

4,55!

4,14!

4,52!

4,06!

5,13!

5,72!

6,32!

Source:!World!Development!Indicators!and!Central!Statistical!Agency!(BPS)!
1985


1995

2005

2011

2012

Poverty Elasticity of Growth (national
poverty line)

-0.74

-0.12

-0.52

-0.16


-0.16

Poverty Elasticity of Growth ($ 2 per
day (PPP))

-0.34

-0.39

-1.05

-0.19

na

Poverty Elasticity of Growth ($ 1.25 per
day (PPP))

-0.76


-0.57

-0.62

-0.09

na

Gini Elasticity of Growth

-0.0021

0.0010

0.0034

0.0029

0.0000

Employment Elasticity of Growth

1.12

0.24

0.34

0.26

0.21

!

Decreasing effecAveness of
growth to reduce poverty à
due to jobless growth
(growing of capital intensive
sectors)
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Source: Author’s Calculation based on data from World Development Indicators and Central Statistical Agency
5 (BPS)
na: not available

!

Average Expenditure Per Capita Growth (2005-2013)
Source: Author’s CalculaCon based on Susenas 2005, 2008, 2011, 2013
18.00

16.00

14.00

Fuel price adjustment in 2005-2008 and introducing
some social protec[on policies

Growth (%)

12.00

Commodity
Boom: Coal
and palm
oil

10.00

Adverse
impacts of
commodity
boom and
Global Crisis

8.00

6.00

4.00

End of
Commodity
Boom

2.00

0.00
1 4

7 10 13 16 19 22 25 28 31 34 37 40 43 46 49 52 55 58 61 64 67 70 73 76 79 82 85 88 91 94 97 100

2005-2008 (Downward Gini (0.363-->0.350)

2008-2011 (Upward Gini (0.350-->0.410)

2011-2013 (Stable Gini (0.410-->0.413)

Source: Author’s compilaCon
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Which Province Contribu[ng Most on Inequality?

Divided
Society


Potency of
Social Conflict

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Source: Author’s calculaCon

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Indonesia’s Rising Divide (World Bank, 2015)

Sources of
Inequality

Policies for
Tackling Inequality

Inequality of Opportunity

Improving local service
delivery

Unequal Jobs

PromoAng be-er jobs and
training

High wealth concentraAon

Ensuring social protecAon for
shocks

Low resiliency

Government spending and
taxaAon

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Current Fiscal Reforms and Its Impact
on Poverty, Growth and Inequality

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Poverty-Growth-Inequality (PGI) Triangle
POVERTY
Socio
Economic
Condi[on

Global Dependency
(Trade, FDI, Shocks)

INEQUALITY

GROWTH

Socio
Economic
Policies
including
Fiscal

Note
: Indirect RelaAonship
: Direct RelaAonship

Source: adapted from Dartanto and Patunru, 2015
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Fiscal Reforms: Need Driven
Cujng Fuel Subsidies: Thanks to Decreasing World Oil Price
Energy Subsidy: Burden to the Budget, 2000-2014

Sources: Ikhsan, 2014

30.0

5

4.5

4.4
25.0

March 2005- 30% fuel price Adjustment
October 2005 – 67 % fuel price adjustment

25.3
4.0

4.5

June 2013, 44 % fuel price
adjustment
3.9

3.8

3.7
3.4

20.0

21.2 3.5

3.4

3.1

3

3.0

2.8

16.7

4

15.0

2.5

2

1.9
10.0

1.7

1.7
9.0

October 2008 – 30 % fuel price adjustment
February 2009 – back to October 2009 price regime

Monthly Adjustment
Fuel price 2002-2003

5.0

1.5

1

0.5

0.0

0
2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

% of central government spending

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

% of GDP (secondary axis)

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Substan[al Fiscal Reforms in 2015
450

25
409

409

400
376
20
20

350

345

311

18

310

307

20

345

341

19

17

300

290

267

15

250

Ra[o in %

IDR Trilion

256

191

200

178
10
156
146

150

138
7
120

114
100

86
58

50

36

65

64

68 68

75

82

5

52

46

0

0
2011
EducaAon

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2012
Infrastruture

2013
Health

Food Security

2014
Energy Subsidy

2015-APBN

2015-APBNP

RaAo Energy Subsidies to Budget

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The 2016 Fiscal Reforms
•  Larger Coverage:
–  Premium Aid Recipient (PBI): 86.4 millions (2014) à 92.4 millions
(2016)
–  CondiAonal cash transfer (PKH): 720 thousand HHs (2007) à 6
million HHs (2016)

•  Larger Budget: village transfer fund--IDR20.8T (2015) à IDR47T
(2016);
•  Be-er Targeted: Electricity Subsidy– IDR73.1T (2015) à
IDR38.4T(2016);
•  5% allocaAon of central government budget on health in 2016;
•  ConAnuing welfare program: Family Saving Welfare Card (cash
transfer), EducaAon Card (KIP), Health Card (KIS), CondiAonal
Cash Transfer (PKH), Rice for the poor (Raskin).
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Fuel Subsidy Reforms: Poverty and Inequality
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IDR per HH per month

IDR tr

156,000

Fuel (total)
10

130,000

8

104,000
Gasoline

6

78,000

4

52,000
Kerosene
26,000

2

0

0
1

2

3

4
5
6
7
Household consumption decile

8

9

10

Sources: Ikhsan, 2014

•  Fuel subsidies reforms in 2014/2015 à contribute to
reducing inequality.
•  Reforms in 2014/2015 contribute to increase in poverty in
March 2015 since compensaAon are not Amely and increasing
rice price.
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Infrastructure and Inequality (preliminary findings)
•  Infrastructure projects (naAonal wide/big project) promote
economic growth and (reducing?) poverty; but tend to increase
inequality;
•  Small projects (regency/district level), basis infrastructure and
village funds will reduce inequality and poverty but not
significantly promote economic growth;
Variables
Length'of'Road:'
Total'National
t"stat
Length'of'Road:'
District'
t"stat
#'observation
R>Square
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Poverty

Inequality

0.00137*

0.00000916*

3.22

3.74

>0.00141*

>0.00000995*

"2.98
358
0.684

"3.75
358
0.297

Source: Dartanto et al., forthcoming

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Universal Health Coverage à Improving Equality of Health
Access
Problem: how to mandate non poor
informal sectors (100 millions) joining
the program?

A hypothetical Gini
Index (Health Exp.)
with UHC = 0.5524



Gini Index
(Expenditure) = 0.410
(with UHC = 0.405)



Gini Index (Health
Exp.) in 2013 = 0.693

Source: LPEM FEUI’s estimate based on Susenas 2013


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Educa[on (Human Capital):
Equal Opportuni.es for Everyone to be Someone

Early Development:
Pregnancy and
Golden Age Period
Policy: Condi[onal
Cash Transfer

Junior and Senior
High School

Scholarship
(Indonesian Smart
Card)

Undergraduate
Level

Bidik Misi
Scholarship

Graduate Level

LDPP Scholarship

•  Equal in educaAon access but not equal in educaAon quality à
inequality in income
•  How to improve the quality of educaAon?
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Governance Issue (Corrup[on), Social
Assistance and Inequality

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Source: MeliyawaC, 2015
Government Social Assistance

IniAal CondiAon

CorrupAon on Social Assistance

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Good Inten[on Bad Outcome:
Social Assistance, Corrup[on and Inequality
Variables

Ratio+between+Social+Assistance+
and+SNG's+Total+Expenditure+(in+%)
Amount+of+Corruption+Detected
(in+IDR+Billions)+

Model+1
Coef.
Robust+SE

@0.20376* 0.10530

Model+2
Coef.
Robust+SE

Model+3
Coef.
Robust+SE

@0.19941*

0.10623 @0.21397*

0.10586

0.00003** 0.00002 0.00003**

0.00002 0.00003**

0.00002

Health'and'Education'Expenditure'per2
20.00605*
0.00318 20.00549*
Capita'(in'IDR)
Share'of'Infrastructure'Expenditure'to'
GRDP'(Gross'Regional'Domestic'
Product)
20.00073*
Dummy'of'Election'(1'='regional'
election;'0'='other)'
0.00073
Constant
0.31470***
0.00351 0.31951***
0.00422 0.32256***
#+Observation
386
386
386
F@Stat
4.7
4.42
3.28
R@Square
0.011
0.019
0.028
*p