It is about 20% or equal to 0.66 million Indonesian-Arabs are in lower to low class, 50% or 1.65 million are in the level of low-mid class, 25% or 0.825 million are of the mid-class and the rest 5% or 0.165 million are the mid to high class.
For the lower Indonesian-Arabs, they have to live merely day-by-day because the low income earned makes them unable to afford access to any proper living such as education, medication or housing. Their poor economy condition, negligence toward modern education and other ample reasons have been the main barriers for them to compete and to develop their economy sustainability.
It is really beyond any understanding that lower income families (2 - 3 families or 10-15 persons) live crowdedly in a small house (+ 50 m2). It is a usual sight that one house is occupied by grandparents, parents and grandchildren, as extended family.
They are forced to do so because poverty has halted them to have good housing condition. They have to share all their private need of rooms and others to all family members. They barely have enough space for their activities at home.
A situation, which is intolerable by any living standard existed elsewhere.
For a family who lives in big cities, the condition is even worse because a small house there normally does not have open space as garden. The house is crowded with family members, bad air ventilation, unhealthy sanitation, depression and many other problems may always make the house atmosphere is in high tension. Most of the time, a simple disease such as cold, cough or small pox will spread quickly among them. The worse is there are families who have to live together with their family member who
suffers mental disorder. And again poverty has engulfed their daily life so every family will submissively accept it as part of life.
The low income families commonly earn living by running various small scale retailing businesses (of capital less than $1000), home industry (footwear, clothes, bakery etc.), selling second-hand books, perfumes and others. While in services, they become employee, Car or motorcycle broker, take scramble jobs and others.
This poor condition of the Indonesian-Arabs is certainly connected with the unfavorable economy situation in Indonesia in the last decade. As the world’s oil price increase, the situation is deteriorating in every business sector. Averagely, every family from the low income earns $200 monthly (GNP $600/2008). The National Census
Bureau Indonesia states that in 2008, about 43 millions Indonesians are living in poverty and it means that include the Indonesian-Arabs.
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