NGOs present bleak RI report to European partners.

(From The Jakarta Post)

from THE JAKARTA POST -- TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2006 -- PAGE 9 Poverty and human rights abuses are still serious problems in Indonesia, with non-governmental organizations presenting a bleak report on both issues at a recent meeting in Brussels, Belgium

The report, orchestrated by the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID), highlighted the worsening poverty in the country

The latest government data show that at least 39 million Indonesians, 17.7 percent of the population, live on less than one U.S. dollar a day

"According to INFID calculations this year, Indonesia needs Rp 200 trillion (US$22 billion) a year to halve extreme poverty by 2015, as stated …