President Widodo has said that poverty levels are rising on account of slow economic growth and food-price increases resulting in the gini coefficient, which reflects the gap between rich and the poor, rising to 0.41 in September 2015. This however ignores the fact that robust economic growth of above 6% in previous years also saw the rich taking an larger share of wealth at the expense of the poor with the top 10% now controlling around 80% of the country's wealth.