saco-indonesia.com, Penduduk miskin di Provinsi Banten tiap bulan bukannya menurun, tapi terus bertambah. Kisarannya telah mencapai ratusan orang.

Dalam data Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS), pada September 2013 lalu jumlah penduduk miskin di Provinsi Banten telah meningkat hingga mencapai 682.710 orang. Jumlah tersebut terus bertambah sejak enam bulan belakangan ini.

Pada Maret 2013 lalu jumlah penduduk miskin di Provinsi Banten telah berjumlah 656.240 orang. Enam bulan kemudian, September telah menjadi 682,710 orang atau telah mengalami peningkatan sebesar 4,03 persen atau 26. 470 orang.

Kepala BPS Provinsi Banten, Syech Suhaimi juga mengungkapkan, bertambahnya penduduk miskin di Provinsi Banten telah terjadi di daerah perkotaan. Sedangkan di daerah pedesaan, malah menurun.

"Peningkatan ini telah berdasarkan daerah tempat tinggal. Pada periode Maret 2013 sampai September 2013 lalu penduduk miskin di daerah perkotaan telah bertambah sebesar 50,66 ribu orang, sedangkan penduduk miskin di daerah pedesaan berkurang sebesar 24,2 ribu orang," ujarnya, Jumat (3/1).

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.