STRATEGI PEMBERDAYAAN EKONOMI RAKYAT DALAM PENANGGULANGAN KEMISKINAN DI INDONESIA

Abstract

Pervasive poverty remains a major challenge to the efforts of development
in Indonesia. An economic empowerment for the people is something that must be
done, in order to obtain a national economic recovery. The growth of Indonesian
economy that had been rapid before the financial crisis led to a state of oblivion made
by those economic agents and institutions functioned as the policy holders. While,
on the other hand, negligence occurred as they had been shown in the economic
activities from the agents, which were unsupervised and out of control. Exchange
rate crisis had turned into the most complex economic crisis ever experienced
by Indonesia, at least since the New Order era empowered. This economic crisis
ultimately created a great economic recession by itself and increased the level of
poverty and gap in the income distribution in the country. Fourteen years passed
the Reformation Era, but these had not still been able to touch all of the aspects of
national life. Only the formal legal issues reformed neatly. However, the main issues,
such as corruption, poverty, unemployment and injustice could not still done until
the Indonesian nation has completely reformed in total. Traditional sector, which
was firstly considered unimportant as a barrier to the economic growth, later it
played an important role in tackling with the poverty. Based on a study conducted
by a number of economists, strategies within the citizen economic empowerment
to cope with poverty in Indonesia are formulated through one policy package that
has a characteristic of complimentary and they support each other, so that, they are
capable to deal with the level of poverty in Indonesia.