Decile 10 Is Not a List of Indonesia's Richest People

On Saturday, February 14, 2026, a Facebook account posted an image titled "The Newest 2026 Decile System." It contained a table dividing society into ten groups, complete with labels and rupiah figures. Decile 1 was labeled as the "very poor" category, with spending below Rp480,000 a month. Decile 10 was labeled "very rich," with spending above Rp12 million a month.

The table kept spreading. By mid-August 2026, the post had gathered around 4,800 likes and 2,200 comments, with similar copies appearing on Instagram and Threads, as reported by Tirto (2026). Its comment section filled with people who believed the content and shared their own experiences of receiving government aid.

The Ministry of Social Affairs denied it. Through the official account of its Center for Social Welfare Data and Information in late June 2026, the Ministry stated that the infographic had not been produced by the ministry, as reported by Kompas.com (2026).

The same denial was repeated when the table resurfaced in August 2026. The Ministry reaffirmed that the decile in DTSEN represents a family welfare ranking as governed by Ministerial Decree No. 22/HUK/2026, with no benchmark spending figure attached to it, as reported by IDN Times (2026). BPS likewise stated it had never published spending figures by decile, as reported by Liputan6 (2026).

Three fact-checking organizations reached the same conclusion. Kompas.com Cek Fakta declared the table a hoax on June 30, 2026. Liputan6 Cek Fakta repeated the finding on August 13, 2026, when a new version of the table resurfaced. Tirto rated it false and misleading on August 14, 2026.

At this point, the case looks like an ordinary hoax. What comes next is more interesting.

The table was indeed false. But the public's questions were entirely reasonable. If the state places a family in a particular decile, what does that number actually mean? Where are the thresholds? Who exactly falls into each group?

This article traces the official answers to those questions, while also examining which parts of that answer are already available to the public and which are not.

Millions of People Checked Their Decile in August 2026

In mid-August 2026, millions of Indonesians did the same thing within a nearly identical window of time. They opened cekbansos.kemensos.go.id or dtsen-form.bps.go.id, entered their NIK, and stared at a single number that appeared on the screen. Both channels display the same decile position, as reported by Bisnis.com (2026).

The results triggered widespread bewilderment. Complaints poured in on social media. Some residents were recorded in decile 9 despite still renting a type-36 house and owning only one used car. Others landed in decile 10 even though their household depended on a husband's income of around Rp3 million a month, as reported by Kontan (2026).

The trigger was clear. The government was discussing decile-based restrictions on fuel subsidies. Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa stated that the government was discussing the possibility of restricting Pertalite subsidies for decile 9 and 10 groups, following his meeting with Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia on August 11, 2026, as reported by CNBC Indonesia (2026). The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources said the realignment was meant to ensure the subsidy budget reached the groups entitled to it, as reported by Kompas.com (2026).

From that point on, the decile number shifted from a matter of social assistance administration into something that felt like a deeply personal status marker.

The stakes are large. BPS's Official Statistics News recorded that social assistance disbursement through the end of September 2025 had reached Rp112.7 trillion out of a state budget (APBN) target of Rp154 trillion, citing data from the Ministry of Finance.

The public reads decile 10 as "the richest ten percent of Indonesians." BPS has rejected that reading. That rejection raises a further question: if decile 10 does not mean rich, what does the number actually measure?

The public's confusion has a technical cause. Indonesia uses at least three ranking systems that all divide the population into tiered groups. Each measures something different.

First, the DTSEN decile. This is the one that appears when someone checks their NIK. The National Social and Economic Data was created under Presidential Instruction No. 4 of 2025. BPS Regulation No. 6 of 2025 defines it as a single database of individuals and families containing social and economic conditions and family welfare rankings. The data is formed by merging the Socioeconomic Registration data, the Integrated Social Welfare Data, and the targeting data for the acceleration of extreme poverty eradication.

Second, the Susenas expenditure decile. This system ranks the population based on per capita consumption spending. That figure forms the basis for calculating the Gini ratio and the poverty line.

Third, the World Bank's distribution measure, which divides the population into the bottom 40 percent, the middle 40 percent, and the top 20 percent.

The clearest way to see the difference is through each system's own definition. To measure poverty, BPS uses monthly per capita consumption spending compared against the Poverty Line. There is a clear rupiah figure involved there.

For DTSEN, BPS Regulation No. 6 of 2025 only states that the ranking is carried out to determine a family's welfare position based on socioeconomic variables. The regulation does not specify which variables are used and does not explicitly mention the Proxy Means Testing method in its main body.

These three systems cannot be substituted for one another. Comparing someone's salary against the Susenas expenditure table and then drawing a conclusion about their DTSEN decile position means applying two different measures to reach a single conclusion. That is precisely the error reproduced by the viral table. BPS has stated that per capita spending is not the same as decile, because decile shows a relative position within a distribution rather than a category defined by a single income figure, as reported by BPS Kotabaru Regency (2026). The decile figure therefore also cannot be read as a family's monthly or annual spending limit, as reported by IDN Times (2026).

The Ministry of Social Affairs's denial is consistent with its own regulation. Minister of Social Affairs Decree No. 22/HUK/2026, in effect since January 26, 2026, states that the family welfare ranking is an ordering of family welfare levels from decile 1 to decile 10, compiled based on socioeconomic variables through the application of a statistical method by the government agency responsible for statistics.

There is no descriptive label attached to it. There is no "very poor," "very rich," or nominal spending figure. The labels circulating on social media, and in some news coverage, do not come from the regulation currently in force.

One thing needs to be understood first. The DTSEN decile is not calculated from each household's actual income data. Income is also not a variable measured directly in the census.

BPS Regulation No. 6 of 2025 places the Welfare Ranking as the final stage of DTSEN's five-stage processing. The four preceding stages are data matching, data updating, verification of NIK and family card numbers, and the creation of a static copy or snapshot. Article 1, point 9 defines ranking as the process of grouping Individual Data within DTSEN based on welfare level.

The method is called Proxy Means Testing (PMT). Conceptually, it works in a simple way. Because the state does not have income records for every family, it uses observable characteristics to estimate that family's economic condition.

Head of BPS Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti explained PMT at the National Coordination Meeting for DTSEN on November 13, 2025, describing it as a statistical method for approximating welfare conditions based on available variables, as reported by Antara (2025). The term PMT itself does not appear in BPS Regulation No. 6 of 2025.

In its methodological explanation, BPS states that PMT is used to predict per capita spending based on individual and family characteristics. The PMT model is built using Susenas data, and the resulting predictions are then used to compile the welfare ranking and form the deciles.

This mechanism is not detailed in the main body of BPS Regulation No. 6 of 2025. The regulation only establishes that the ranking is carried out based on socioeconomic variables and uses an accountable scientific method.

BPS states that this process uses around 39 socioeconomic variables. These cover areas such as education, employment, business ownership, housing conditions, access to sanitation and drinking water, health, and asset ownership. BPS Pati Regency (2026) details these variable categories as including population identity, education, employment, housing condition and quality, access to sanitation and drinking water, health and disability, asset ownership, and business ownership. The official Cek Bansos website of the Ministry of Social Affairs (2026) states that the measured variables include individual information such as occupation and education, housing information such as home condition and electricity capacity, and asset ownership.

From this, three conclusions can be drawn.

The DTSEN decile is not an income ranking. There is no single monthly income threshold that determines which decile someone falls into. BPS states that the ranking uses dozens of socioeconomic variables, while linking it to income indicators is described as one of the directions for future improvement in decile accuracy.

The DTSEN decile is not a wealth ranking. The number does not reflect a household's net worth, such as total savings, investments, financial assets, or debt.

The DTSEN decile is an estimated welfare ranking. The number shows a household's relative profile position compared to other households in Indonesia, not the amount of money it holds.

For this reason, BPS has rejected tables that link salary to decile. BPS Cilegon City, through its official account, stated that the ranking is determined from dozens of variables with differing weights, so there is no single income threshold or cutoff point that determines a decile, as reported by Kontan (2026).

BPS Cilegon City also emphasized that the ranking is applied to families, not individuals. One family member's income cannot stand alone as the basis for determining the decile position of the entire family, as reported by Kontan (2026).

The consequence can be seen in a simple illustration. Two families may each have one member earning an identical salary, yet end up in different deciles. The difference lies in the number of dependents, housing status, asset ownership, education level, access to basic facilities, health conditions, and whether other family members also earn an income, as reported by IDN Times (2026). Looking for a single item or a single salary figure that automatically places a family in a particular decile is therefore a flawed approach from the outset.

Ministerial Decree No. 22/HUK/2026 lists ten criteria that can render a family ineligible for assistance even if its decile position qualifies. These include working as a civil servant, being a member of the Indonesian National Armed Forces or the National Police, working as an employee of a state-owned or regional-owned enterprise, holding a state official position, serving as a company executive, working as a healthcare worker at a health facility, and having any family member involved in gambling. Some of these criteria also apply to family members of people in the professions listed.

None of these criteria appear on the screen showing the decile check result.

The most commonly misunderstood part is what the top decile actually contains.

BPS Cilegon City explained this directly. According to the office, the range of income within a single decile can stretch from a few million rupiah a month to billions, and even trillions, of rupiah a month, as reported by Kompas.com (2026). According to BPS Cilegon City, that wide gap in economic conditions within the top group actually reflects Indonesia's economic inequality, as reported by Kontan (2026).

Statistically, this relates to how deciles work by design. The population is divided into ten groups of equal size. In a BPS explanation from November 2025, deciles were described as ten equally sized groups. With a population of around 287 million people at the time, each group corresponds to roughly 28.7 million people, as reported by Antara (2025).

The number of genuinely super-rich households in Indonesia is far smaller than the size of a single decile. The top group therefore has to be filled out by households ranked below the very wealthiest. Decile 10 does not automatically become a list of wealthy groups with uniform economic characteristics.

How wide is that range? According to the March 2026 Susenas, the 20 percent of the population with the highest spending accounted for 45.34 percent of total national spending. Meanwhile, the 40 percent of the population with the lowest spending accounted for only 19.22 percent. Between the two, the middle 40 percent of the population accounted for 35.44 percent of total national spending.

BPS uses two different measures to read welfare and inequality.

To calculate poverty, BPS compiles a separate poverty line for each province, as well as for urban and rural areas. The figures show that minimum living costs differ considerably between regions. In March 2026, the monthly per capita poverty line was recorded at Rp672,756 in Special Region of Yogyakarta, Rp925,525 in Jakarta, and Rp1,275,343 in Papua Pegunungan. The province with the lowest poverty line was West Sulawesi, at Rp519,404. The gap between the lowest and highest figures reaches 2.5 times.

To rank welfare within DTSEN, the state uses a single national scale. Decile position reflects a household's ranking within the national distribution, not its relative position against its own province's economic conditions.

The case of Yogyakarta helps illustrate why this difference in scale matters. The province recorded a poverty rate of 9.70 percent in March 2026, above the national average of 8.07 percent. Its Gini ratio reached 0.411, the third highest in Indonesia after Jakarta and South Papua. Yet its poverty line was around 27 percent lower than Jakarta's.

Given these conditions, the economic situation of a family in Yogyakarta cannot be directly compared to that of a family in Jakarta based solely on local poverty or spending measures. The two families may hold different positions within the context of their own regional economies, while DTSEN places both of them within a single national ranking. This is a consequence of the difference in measurement scale, not a finding drawn from the published DTSEN data itself.

The next question is technical. What score threshold marks entry into decile 10? What is the estimated median household spending in decile 10 compared to decile 9? What proportion of the population in each province falls into decile 10?

These figures are not available to the public.

The contrast with BPS's other statistical systems is quite stark.

For the Susenas expenditure decile, BPS publishes an Official Statistics News release twice a year. The public can view the spending distribution for the bottom 40 percent, the middle 40 percent, and the top 20 percent, including breakdowns by urban and rural areas. The data series can be traced back to 2019. The Gini ratio is available for 38 provinces, separated by urban and rural areas. The poverty line is presented by province, both per capita and per household, complete with the largest contributing commodities and their share of the contribution.

As of August 18, 2026, a review by the IDN Research Institute of BPS's official website, the Bappenas DTSEN portal, BPS's Legal Documentation and Information Network, and the Ministry of Social Affairs's channels found no publication containing:

• A table of the number of families per decile, either nationally or by province

• The threshold or score for each decile boundary

• Distribution statistics for each decile, such as median, mean, or range

• Cross-tabulations of decile with province, urban or rural area, education, employment, or asset ownership

• The weight assigned to each variable in the model

• An official DTSEN-specific statistics release with an auditable table appendix

Some of these gaps have a technical explanation. Keeping the model's variable weights confidential within a PMT model is common practice. The reasoning is simple. If people knew which variables carried the most weight, there would be a risk of the data being deliberately manipulated, undermining the accuracy of social assistance targeting.

That reasoning explains the confidentiality of the weights. It does not explain why aggregate statistics are also unavailable.

A table showing the number of families per decile in each province does not reveal the model's weights. Neither does the distribution of prediction results within each decile. That kind of data does not tell households how to game the system. It only shows the end result. This is the type of statistic BPS routinely publishes for Susenas every six months.

BPS Regulation No. 6 of 2025 lists transparency as one of its objectives. Article 2, letter c states that the regulation aims to promote transparency and accountability in the management of DTSEN. Article 25, paragraph (4) affirms that quality assurance is carried out with attention to the principles of transparency, accountability, and traceability, and may involve third parties to safeguard the objectivity and credibility of data quality.

The same regulation does not provide a channel for the public to view these aggregate results. Articles 19 through 22 govern the mechanism for distributing DTSEN. Its recipients are the coordinating ministry for community empowerment, the Ministry of National Development Planning, the Ministry of Social Affairs, the state finance and development supervisory agency, and data source providers. There is no channel specifically regulating public or independent research institution access.

The regulation's appendix contains a confidentiality agreement template that actually excludes official statistics from the category of confidential information. Information that must be disclosed to the public under prevailing law, including official statistics published by BPS, is stated as not being confidential information.

So the issue is not the confidentiality status of DTSEN's aggregate statistics. What is missing is a mechanism to make those statistics accessible to the public.

Access to DTSEN's microdata is regulated through Regulation of the Minister of National Development Planning/Head of Bappenas No. 7 of 2025, through an institutional access request process. A specific access mechanism for non-government research institutions is not clearly explained in that regulation.

This is where the information gap forms. The state can know the welfare position of every family in Indonesia. Every citizen can know their own position. The bigger picture, such as who falls into a particular decile and how it is distributed across regions, remains something the public cannot see.

The uproar of August 2026 is often framed as a matter of statistical literacy. Much of the circulating explanation focuses on the public not yet understanding what a decile means.

The content shown on the decile check screen tells a more specific story. Residents who check their NIK receive a single ranking number with very limited context. The screen does not explain the categories of variables used. The screen does not state the reference period of the data behind that number. The screen does not adequately explain that the number is the result of a statistical ranking based on socioeconomic characteristics. Nor does the screen show that a single decile contains an extremely wide range of economic conditions, or that there are ten additional criteria that can disqualify someone from eligibility.

A similar gap appears between the regulation and the explanatory materials in circulation. Ministerial Decree No. 22/HUK/2026 sets recipients of the Family Hope Program and the Staple Food Program (Sembako) as falling within decile 1 to decile 4, while recipients of health insurance premium assistance fall within decile 5. This is already reflected on the official Cek Bansos website of the Ministry of Social Affairs (2026), which states that decile 1 to 4 are priority recipients of PKH and Sembako, and decile 5 covers prospective participants of the PBI-JK health insurance subsidy. The same breakdown has also been reported by IDN Times (2026). Some news coverage and explanatory material circulating in August 2026 still describe the Sembako Program as covering decile 1 to 5, following an older provision that has been revoked since January 2026.

When one number decides access to Family Hope Program, the Staple Food Program, National Health Insurance premium assistance, the Smart Indonesia Program, and potentially fuel subsidies, the need for a clear explanation of how to read that number grows accordingly.

BPS has acknowledged there is still room for improvement. The Head of BPS said the agency would continue improving the accuracy of the decile ranking process, including by linking it to income indicators, as reported by Antara (2025).

The following recommendations are designed to be implemented without disclosing model weights and without compromising the integrity of social assistance targeting. Most of them are simply the fulfillment of mandates already written into BPS Regulation No. 6 of 2025.

1. Publish a regular Official Statistics News release for DTSEN. In its Volume 2, 2026 update, BPS expanded DTSEN's coverage to around 95.3 million families, or 289.3 million individuals. A database of that size still lacks a formal statistical dissemination product. BPS already has a tested format and cycle for the Susenas release. Applying a similar format to DTSEN, containing the number of families per decile by province and by urban or rural classification, would not disclose a single model parameter.

2. Publish the distribution of ranking results by decile. For the Susenas system, BPS regularly publishes the spending share of the top 20 percent group to two decimal places. For DTSEN, publishing aggregate statistics on the distribution of ranking results, such as the number of families per decile and the distribution of the welfare score or measure used, would answer the public's most fundamental question without disclosing the model's parameters.

3. Improve the decile check result interface. The results screen should display four additional pieces of information: the categories of variables used in the ranking, the reference period of the data behind that number, an explanation that decile is a relative position derived from an estimate, and the existence of eligibility criteria beyond decile as set out in Ministerial Decree No. 22/HUK/2026. Any change in the level of detail shown should be announced officially, along with the reasoning behind it.

4. Implement Article 25, paragraph (4) by involving independent research institutions. BPS Regulation No. 6 of 2025 already opens the door for third-party involvement to safeguard the objectivity and credibility of data quality. A tiered access scheme for universities and research institutions, backed by confidentiality agreements and anonymized data, would turn that mandate into practice.

5. Publish targeting accuracy estimates regularly. In the DTSEN Volume 2, 2026 update, BPS reported that the update reduced the inclusion error to around 0.06 percent. The exclusion error figure has not been published with the same level of detail. This second indicator shows the proportion of citizens who should have been included as targets but were missed. Both figures should be incorporated into a formal statistical product, rather than remaining a statement made by officials at coordination forums.

6. Align communication across agencies and channels. During August 2026, some of the authoritative explanations reaching the public came from the social media accounts of city-level BPS offices. The content was accurate and the communication effective, but a channel at that level sits outside the design intended for an issue of national scale. At the same time, the program threshold information on public channels and in explanatory materials needs to be promptly updated to match the current Ministerial Decree.

7. Announce the consequences of decile status before decile-based policies are implemented. The discourse around decile-based fuel subsidy restrictions emerged before the public understood what a decile actually is. For future policies, that order can be reversed.

Decile 10 is not a list of Indonesia's richest people. Nor can the number be read as a specific income limit, let alone a measure of household wealth.

What the decile shows is a relative position based on an estimated welfare level, calculated from a range of socioeconomic variables. Two households with substantially different economic conditions can therefore still end up in the same decile.

The problem is not the use of an estimate. A system like this is necessary when the state has to rank hundreds of millions of people without having actual income data for every household. The problem arises when that estimate determines access to various programs, while the public receives only the number itself, without enough information to understand how that number came to be.

The viral table from February 2026 spread widely because it offered something not available through official channels: an explanation of what a number means. Its content was false, and three fact-checking organizations have proven as much. The vacuum that made it appealing has not been fully filled.

In the end, the question about decile is not simply whether someone falls into decile 1, 5, or 10. The real question is what can be concluded from that number, how accurate the estimate is, and how the public can verify the result.

DTSEN has already become important infrastructure for social policy. Transparency, therefore, does not have to mean disclosing model weights or every family's personal data. Transparency can start with something simpler: publishing aggregate statistics, explaining how to read the ranking results, opening space for independent testing, and ensuring that information across all government channels follows the same rules.

Decile 10 does not need to become a label for being rich. But the number the state uses to determine who does and does not receive the benefits of public policy needs to have something more fundamental: a meaning the public can actually understand.

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IDN Times. (2026, August 16). Why can a salary below the minimum wage still land someone in decile 10? Here's the explanation. https://www.idntimes.com/business/economy/kenapa-gaji-kurang-dari-umr-bisa-masuk-desil-10-c1c2-01-3kz8p-mnkglj (accessed August 18, 2026)

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Kompas.com. (2026, August 14). Widely questioned by the public, BPS affirms decile 10 does not mean rich. https://www.kompas.com/tren/read/2026/08/14/183100065/ramai-dipertanyakan-warga-bps-tegaskan-desil-10-bukan-berarti-orang-kaya (accessed August 18, 2026)

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