Pengentasan Kemiskinan Melalui Pembangunan Jaringan Ekonomi Perdesaan (Sebagai Suatu Strategi)

Abstract

This article presents strategies taken by the office of the Minister of Population to alleviate poverty in villages not eligible for IDT (Inpres Desa Tertinggal-Poor Villages Grant). These strategis which is complententory to the IDT program, operates at the micro level as opposed to the IDT program which operates at the macro level. The strategies is built an assumption that hidden unemployment, underemployment and low quality of human resources are the salient features of the rural areas. In part, these drawback were caused by lack of economic network, especially in marketing of rural products, and some previous policies which were urban biased. Strategies taken, is to build economic tietworking between and amongst rural people.