Deputy country director at United Nations Development Program Indonesia writes:
Financial inclusion is an important component of poverty alleviation. It is about increasing access to financial services, especially for the working poor, who typically rely on irregular, low-paid work in the informal economy.
In Indonesia, 36 percent of the population has a bank account and just 13 percent have borrowed from banks, compared with East Asia and the Pacific where the rate is 69 percent.
Francine Pickup
