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As a developing country Indonesia still faces the acute problem of poverty . The result of survey made by Institute for Development of Economic and Finance (INDEF) forescated the number of poor population, in 2009 was about 40 million (16,8%) . This number of population increases 5 million compared to the result of survey made by Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) in 2008, which registared the nunber of poor population about 35 million or about 15,4% (Edi Suharso, 2009;20). B7y considering data mentioned above, we can see that the poverty in Indonesia is very urgent to be handled comprehensively and sustainably. It means that the problem of poverty cnnot be handled partially and sector, because by doing that , in fact us face unlucky situation,i.e wrong target, emergency of seeds of social fragmentation , weakening capital social values, (mutual cooperation, consensus, self supporting and so on). By weakening capital social values in turn, it will push the changing of social behavior to be more distant from the spirit of independence, togetherness, and care to handle the problem collectively. Therefore, government in this case, Coordinator Minister of Prosperity, as Chairman of Team for Coping with Poverty has to make policy which could be the National Program for Autonomous Community Empowerment (PNPM) i.e.a national program in form of policy as base /frame to implement activities of handling Poverty based on society empowerment. This program is implement through the harmonization and development of system ,mechanism and program procedure, assistance and simulant fund to push initiative and innovation of society in effort to handle the poverty, sustainably. The approach made by Autonomous PNPM is an empowerment approach to push the creation of Self - Supporting Group (KSM) as a component of the whole process of hndling the poverty in order to increase the capability of existing group , or to create a new group. So, KSM is an association or persons which, voluntarily, assembles them self in kind of group , because of having the same interest and need, so that inside that group there is the same objective to be achieved collectively. |
