The World Bank’s latest Indonesia Economic Prospects (June 2026) reached a compelling and unsettling conclusion: between 2018 and 2025, fewer workers earned middle-class livelihoods while more educated workers had gone into informal employment. International scholars continue to debate the definition and measurement of the middle class, but the World Bank’s findings are consistent with the first two authors’ research, based on a broad range of c…
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