User:Echinacea10/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Poverty in Indonesia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to be evaluated because I have a high interest in developing reliable information about Indonesia, because I come from this country.

Evaluate the article
1. Lead Section

The article provides too little information about poverty in Indonesia. This article only give a very general information that should have been explained better.

2. Content

Data given in the article start from 1999 to March 2017 where this could have been explained more and updated. Furthermore, the data is not complete and too general by just mentioning some islands and provinces in Indonesia that can not fully represent the country. The author might find more data and figures published by Central Bureau of Statistics of Indonesia and also give further explanation how COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on poverty in Indonesia.

2. Tone and Balance

The information provided seems neutral because there are not much information given by this article. This article only mention about urban and rural poverty in Indonesia in two provinces (like states in US) only and are not going into much details about the statements the author wrote.

3. Sources and References

The first citation is currently unavailable at the Central Bureau of Statistics of Indonesia when I tried to access the website. Meanwhile, the second and third citations are inaccessible (Asian Development Bank) where the website only showed that, "your connection is not private, attacker might be trying to steal your info" I tried to changed the connection from GWU Wi-Fi to my data but it was still the same. Then, on the fourth and fifth citations are from Jakarta Post, one of the Indonesian newspapers. Considering that there out of five citations could not be access, it is hard to verify how reliable the content is. Moreover, the sources given are also not varied (four citations are come from two different sources).

4. Organization and Writing Quality

The article is not really clear or easy to read as the data provided is incomplete. It was also not well organized because it only has two sections including the introduction. There is also some unsuitable use of words that might confuse the reader.

5. Images and Media

There is no images or media on the article.

6. Talk Page Discussion

There is one user asked to edit the article where he/she provided ten sources from various books and journals on 17 September 2019. However, the user was not getting any response from another user.

7. Overall Impressions

The article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's quality scale. This article also has been rated as High Importance on the project's important scale. The strength of this article is the interesting theme where there is not many articles have written about this topic. In my opinion, this article is still poorly developed where there could be more information regarding poverty in Indonesia that can be explained better. The article has not cover any information about women poverty in Indonesia and also the impact of COVID-19 in relation to poverty in the country.