Spatial Poverty of Poverty Alleviation in Bantul Districts of Yogyakarta

Abstract

Poverty is one of the five dimensions of the poverty trap suggested by Robert Chambers. Those poverty dimensions are vulnerability, physical weakness, powerless, and region isolation. The region isolation associates with accessibility. Meanwhile, access is a medium to open up to social and economic opportunities. This research seeks to see the poverty base on topography condition as a tool to figure out the accessibility. Also, this research aims to examine the poverty level, which ultimately will be used to determine the poverty alleviation programs. Poverty is determined based on the beneficiaries of rice to the poor (beras miskin). The number of poor families in the two research locations was 207. Besides the structural interview using the questionnaire, this research also used a qualitative method with an in-depth interview. The aim of the research on the level of poverty and determine the poverty alleviation programs will be analyzed descriptively using a cross-tabulation. Meanwhile, the influencing factor on poverty will be analyzed using a co-efficient regression. The demographic, social, and economic characteristics of the heads of poor families at the two research locations showed that there was no differentiation.