The Development of Self- Helping Model for Poverty Alleviation on the Productive Poor Group

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Abstract-There have been so many effort have been done to reduce poverty. The poor has decreased. However, it is still remain vulnerable. The existence of economic turmoil, such as crop failure and rising fuel prices would quickly raise up poverty. The empowerment of the poor is done uniformly and pay less attention to the character of the poor, especially their the social psychology character. High economic growth often ignores the poor and marginalized. Therefore, inclusive growth can play an important role in alleviating poverty.This research is supposed to identify the social phsycology character of the productive poor, local wisdom related to poverty reduction, as well as develop a model of self-helping program for poverty alleviation.This study identified two groups of poor who has different social psychology character. The first group is the group of the poor who tend to accept poverty as destiny. This group considers that education is not important and subsistence work. This group tend to be found in rural which has low levels of mobility, and the people tend to be homogeneous. Secondly, the groups of poor who believe that poverty can be changed. They argue that the key factor to get out of poverty is education. Most of them set aside part of their income to live better in the future. This group tend to be found in urban which has high levels of mobility, and people are more likely heterogeneous Index Terms-Empowerment, inclusive growth, productive poor, poverty alleviation, social phsycology. I. INTRODUCTIONPoverty is one of the problems faced by provinces in Indonesia, including Central Java. According to Indonesian Statistic's data, the number of poor in Central Java in March 2011 amounted 5,107 million people (15.76 percent to total population), much less than in March 2010. The poor in Central Java has decreased, however it is still remain vulnerable. The existence of economic turmoil, such as crop failure and rising fuel prices would quickly raise up poverty.The high growth of economy sometimes ignoring the poor and marginalized people. Therefore, high growth of economy sometimes resulting an increase in inequality 1. The Increasing in inequality may have implications such as a Manuscript received November 19, 2013; revised February 20, 2014 raising in the rate of poverty, political instability and social instability as well as lower growth itself. Then, Central Java implements pro-poor, pro-jobs and pro-growth to address poverty. When the inequalities occur, it could mean that development does not in line with the concept of inclusive growth. Reference [2] shows the main source for inclusive growth and poverty alleviation is the field of productive and decent employment, social security and increasing the capability of the basic needs of the community. It is not enough to make inclusive growth materialized, if the poverty alleviation just rely on aid or granting and so do the empowerment of the poor is done uniformly. It is important to consider the characters of the poor, especially the socia...

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