IT is best to end the debate over the poverty statistics. Now is not the time for debating, but to raise the living standard of the poor. Reducing poverty and unemployment is a difficult task facing the government of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Jusuf Kalla. Yudhoyonos target of reducing poverty from 16.6 percent in 2004 to 8.2 percent in five years time is still far from being realized, as is the aim of reducing unemployment from 9.7 percent to