REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The layoffs to be conducted by several companies will not always influence the poverty rate, according to Suryamin, the head of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS).

"It will not always have an impact (on the poverty level). After all, those planning to lay off workers are big companies. It will be seen later whether there will be an impact at the micro level," the BPS head noted here on Thursday.

He said the government is currently boosting the development of micro businesses, which do not import raw materials.

"These micro businesses can also absorb (workers). We will see later this February," he noted.