-Percentage, the poor population in Papua during the last six months decreased by 0.14 percent points from 28.54 per cent by March 2016 becomes 28.40 percent in September 2016.
-Views by type area, the poor population is concentrated in rural areas, as many as there were in September 2016 37.07 percent poor population live in rural areas while in urban areas only amounted to 4.21 percent.
-The poverty line (GK) in urban areas by September 2016 of Rp 440,021,-higher than the GK village reached Rp 425,264. This means the cost to meet the needs of a decent living minimum (basic needs) for the food and not a food is greater in urban areas than in rural areas.
-The role of food commodities against much bigger than GK role
not food commodities (housing, clothing, education, and health), namely 72.31 percent compared to 27.69 percent.
-Commodity foods that are influential to GK in urban areas is rice, cigarettes kretek filters and Cob/tuna/tuna. While the influential commodities against GK countryside is cassava, rice, vines smoking
kretek filters.
-In the period March to September 2016 2016 ¡ V, the poverty Depth Index (P1) and the index of the severity of poverty (P2) showed a significant decline in the trend. This indicates that the average spending on the poor population tends increasingly approached from the poverty line and inequality are also increasingly poor population spending shrinks.
