Policy Implementation of Poverty Countermeasure Through Independent Urban ‘PNPM’ (President Rule Study Number 15 Year 2010 about Acceleration of Poverty Countermeasure in Malang City)

Abstract

National Program for Community Empowerment (PNPM Mandiri MP) is a government program in accelerating the poverty reduction through community empowerment approach. According to Presidential Regulation No. 15/2010, the National policy strategy of poverty reduction is an attempt conducted by government to tackle poverty. The implementation of community empowerment through PNPM-Urban Mandiri programs involved all stakeholders and policy makers among government, community and others. This study aimed to describe and analyze the process of communication, resources, commitment and bureaucratic structure as well as supporting and hindering factors of PNPM-Urban Mandiri implementation. The research method used in this study was qualitative and it was taken in PNPM-Urban Mandiri Kota Malang , East Java Province. The data analysis used was interactive data analyzing models. The result of the study shows that the implementation of PNPM-Urban that the policy of poverty reduction conducted based on the Presidential Regulation No. 15/2010 has still not effectively implemented as well as found some obstacles and problems that caused the objectives has not achieved. They were influenced by communication, resources, commitment, and bureaucratic structures. INTRODUCTION  Poverty has to be an acute problem in this country. Several policies and strategies in each regime start from old order, new order and reformation order had been done. Formulation and strategy to resolve poverty endemic had never met the point so the poverty still occurred in this country and it often became politic consumption by the elite. Government policy in poverty countermeasure aims to fulfill people basic needs to make them respected, protected to have more decent life and humane. We cannot deny that poverty problem is locked to each other, not only about one field but also about another field such as access disability of economy, social, culture, politic and participation among people. The principle of poverty problem has not always been about economy, but complex and multi-dimension. Impartial policy occurred came from politic and economy system which are caused poor people did not have access to economy, politic and democracy resources. The failure of former programs seems that government did not