“Reconstruction Of Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia through Human Empowerment Strategy”
Poverty is a very crucial phenomenon that determines the movement of the country to a certain degree of success. The concept of development at the end of world war II is apparently making the poverty rate increased. The idea of modernization was lost due to not being able to bring positive effect of development to the poorest communities, and even creating new poor people every year.
Development in Indonesia has brought a lot of changes in various aspects of society, both in rural and urban areas. Such changes have an impact not only to the physical environment, but also the system of social values in social life. However unfortunately the changes created by the construction have impact created underdevelopment and poverty in this country. The potential natural resources to increase social economic was not utilized because of the quality of human resources is very alarming. There are still a lot of beggars and vagrants hanging around not just in countryside and even in big cities that have become a common spectacle every day. Not to mention the youths who drop out from school because of the high education cost. Poverty in Indonesia is now getting worst. Poverty is not merely an economic problem but a cultural and structural poverty.
By seeing the reality of poverty in this country, the government is actively implementing various poverty alleviation programs , but it can not be denied that the poverty reduction program has not gone as expected. There are many deviations found in government programs.
Poverty in Indonesia is still considered alarming from year to year. Actually, the problem of poverty is rooted in the quality of human resources. But unfortunately the government's attention toward poverty alleviation is only pivot to the charity approach that which is considered short term.
In attempts to sharpen the poverty alleviation programs in Indonesia, it is necessary to find out the appropriate methods due to evaluation and monitoring , so that quality of the implementation of poverty reduction programs will be getting better and straight to the target. With objective and measurable indicators will be easier make improvement in many ways in order to become more sustainable programs and non-charity. A concept of human empowerment is the most effective strategy in reducing poverty because poverty can not be tackled with an approach that denies the reality that the source of poverty is human itself. Instrumental approach is reducing the characteristics of poverty that exist in poor communities was only able to solve the poverty problem for short-term basis, and it gives the opportunity to be re-trapped in deeper poverty. It can be concluded that, poverty reduction programs would result in the strengthening of the poverty problem.
Thus, it is necessary to make reconstruction paradigm of poverty alleviation applied in Indonesia, namely the charity concept to the concept of human empowerment because the problem of quality human resources is the fundamental case that cause the poverty in Indonesia. Through the concept of empowerment, the community is no longer a spectator in the development process but rather the society should play an active role in the implementation of the country's development.
Finally, the Government needs to re-evaluate and control the poverty alleviation program, whether effective or there are still some weaknesses or deviation in its implementation. Government should focus on improving the quality of human resources in the implementation of poverty reduction. Society which is the strength of a country, should work together and cooperate with the government in the process of poverty reduction, society is also expected play an active role in improving the quality of human resources and they have to be able to provide creative ideas that support national building to make the country getting out of the poverty itself.
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