Madurese people operate with significantly larger figures around 10.5 to 10.8 million people. In any case, the Madurese people are among the largest ethnics of Indonesia, thus, according to the statistics of the 2010 census, they occupy the fourth largest ethnic group after the Javanese people, Sundanese people and Batak people. Historically, the Madurese people inhabit Madura Island and located to the east of it, a group of smaller islands in Java Sea such as Kambing Island, Sapudi Islands and Kangean Islands. Here they number about 3.3 million people, which is more than 90% of the population in these territories. Approximately the
Poverty in Indonesia own due to economic, cultural, linguistic and physical isolations which set it apart from the rest of Indonesia. In February 1999, as much as 47.97 million people were classified as poor, representing 47.43% of the nation's population. However, this figure must take into account the slide of the rupiah in the Asian financial crisis. By July 2005, that number had been reduced to 35.10 million, representing 41.97% of the total population. Latest available figures, March 2007, show that 37.17 million people are under the poverty line representing 20.58% of the entire population. Based on a report from the Asian Development