Poverty Solution (Dirjen Cipta Karya)

An Action Research in District of Great Aceh

Intoduction 

Great Aceh is one of districts in Aceh Province, it's located closed to Banda Aceh with capital city is Jantho. The area of Great Aceh is around 2.974,12 sq miles and number of population is 351.418 people. Nowadays, many people come to this area to see old history of Aceh which still kept well in several place such as Tumulus of Laksamana Malahayati (Aceh's Heroine), Kuta Indra Parta, Mesjid Purbakala Indrapuri and enjoying beautiful view of beaches and traditional delicious foods.

Poverty in Great Aceh

Everyone know, research have been proved that Aceh as a rich province in Indonesia which stand in 7th level out of 33 provinces  (PECAP: 2010). Even, in 2014 Aceh's budgeting reach the amount of Rp13,3 billion increasing year by year. Although they have much money, the people still in poverty line or also in 7th position of poor provinces in Indonesia.

The government try to find problem solving to this case. They give Jadup (Jatah Hidup), Raskin (Beras Miskin), BLT (Bantuan Langsung Tunai) to decreasing the number of poor people in Aceh. This program absolutely cannot solve the problem and not decreasing the number of poor people effectively, only change some effects of poverty in Aceh. Based on statistic data showed that 17,72% of Aceh population are poor  (BPS: 2013).

In Great Aceh also have poverty problem so much. Poverty reduction is a very complex development problems and challenges have dimension locally, nationally and globally. This led efforts to tackle the problem of poverty can not be separated from the national strategy for sustainable development (Sustainability Development) in a country. According to United Nation Development Programs (2002), there are three basic requirements for the achievement of sustainable development:     

      • Poverty reduction,     
      • Changes in consumption and production patterns that do not support sustainability, 
      • And protection and management of natural resources in a sustainable manner.

Today, the bulk of countries around the world began to busy in poverty alleviation of finding creative solutions. There are programs that promote preventive curative and rehabilitative programs. In this regard, Indonesia through financial support from the World Bank successfully introduced a social justice program for men and women that is Selaras program initiated by the Director General of Human Settlements (Dirjen Cipta Karya).Selaras program is an advanced program of PNPM Urban aimed at improving cooperation between men and women so that they can participate equally and fairly in society activities to combat the roots of poverty.

will be Continued....