In Indonesia's happiness index, released recently by the agency, Banten province, which is made up mostly of municipalities bordering the capital city, stood at the bottom of the list with an index of 68.08.Also in the category of provinces with lowest happiness indicators is Papua province, which came in third place from the bottom, with an index of 69.87.
BPS also found that North Maluku and North Kalimantan are the happiest provinces in the country with an index of 76.34 and 76.33 respectively. In June, during a speech to celebrate Jakarta's 495th anniversary, outgoing Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said that true happiness felt by Jakartans was more important than statistics measuring people's degree of happiness.
"Giving a sense of progress to people is what matters most. If people say that they are grateful for living in Jakarta then that's a job well-done for us," Anies said as quoted by kompas.com.
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