Acknowledging the need to improve household targeting for anti-poverty programs, the Ministry of Planning (BAPPENAS) requested that the World Bank provide technical assistance in exploring ways to devise a better targeting system. The research was a collaborative effort between the World Bank Office Jakarta (WBOJ), the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), and academic researchers affiliated with the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Research findings served to inform the government’s decision to develop new methods to identify poor households eligible for a variety of assistance programs.

Pilot Study, Baseline Survey (and Final Survey in selected districts) in Three Provinces: Central Java, North Sumatra, South Sulawesi (2008)