Data from Indonesia showed that the numbers of its very poor now total more than 10 per cent of the population. - AFP
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): Like many families in the village of Semerak, in Central Java, Pipit Wahyudi, 26, and his father as well as his older brother could count on an infusion of about 5 million rupiah (US$350) every month since his mother started work as a housekeeper in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, about a decade ago.
The money -- which is double what anyone would receive for cleaning houses in Indonesia - has given the leg up to the family of farmers. It helped to pay to build their house, Pipit's nursing diploma and a motorcycle.
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