A Multidimensional Approach of Child Poverty in Indonesia

Abstract

This research discuss about child poverty, which is commonly called deprivation. The purpose of this research is to count multidimensional child poverty index as child poverty measuring istrument in 34 provinces of Indonesia, by using composite idex count calculation. Dimensions and indicators used to compose Multidimensional Child Poverty Index in this research are adapting from dimensions and indicators that used in research by Mahadewi and Kodoatie1. Besides that, the determination of dimensions and indicator also adjust the availability of data from SUSENAS 2015.The calculation result of Multidimensional Child Poverty shows that 7 provinces pertain to number I priority (high), 9 provinces belong to number II priority (medium-high), 10 provinces include to number III priorities (medium-low), and 8 provinces are number IV priority (low).