Indonesia - Internally displaced persons

Internally displaced persons (number, high estimate)

The value for Internally displaced persons (number, high estimate) in Indonesia was 200,000 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 9 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,259,841 in 2001 and a minimum value of 120,000 in 2008.

Definition: Internally displaced persons are people or groups of people who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of armed conflict, or to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, or natural or human-made disasters and who have not crossed an international border.

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

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Year Value
2001 1,259,841
2002 1,100,000
2003 600,000
2004 500,000
2005 600,000
2006 250,000
2007 200,000
2008 120,000
2009 120,000
2010 200,000

Internally displaced persons (number, low estimate)

The value for Internally displaced persons (number, low estimate) in Indonesia was 70,000 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 6 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 580,000 in 2003 and a minimum value of 70,000 in 2008.

Definition: Internally displaced persons are people or groups of people who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of armed conflict, or to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, or natural or human-made disasters and who have not crossed an international border.

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

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Year Value
2003 580,000
2005 342,000
2006 150,000
2007 100,000
2008 70,000
2009 70,000

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility