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The unemployment rate is falling, rural distress is not

Indonesia's falling unemployment rate looks like an economic triumph, until you realize the country’s poorest villages have the lowest joblessness, masking a hollowed-out manufacturing sector and millions driven into survival farming.

The unemployment rate is falling, rural distress is not

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