Jurnal Populasi
Vol 20, No 1 (2009): Juni

BANTUAN LANGSUNG TUNAI MENGATASI MASALAH DENGAN MASALAH

Umi Listyaningsih (Gadjah Mada University)
Eddy Kiswanto (Gadjah Mada University)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Jun 2009

Abstract

The government has been conducting the effort to eliminate poverty by performing several programs. One of them is Program Kompensasi Pengurangan Subsidi BBM (PKPS-BBM/Oil Subsidy Compensation Program) by giving direct cash transfer (Bantuan Langsung Tunai/BLT). BLTaims at reducing the proportion of poor people significantly. During the implementation, many problems accrured. The obstructed of information to the people during the implementation of BLT has caused the misunderstanding among the people. This eventually caused protests. The data of poor people did not reflect the real condition in the field since the limitation of village elites during the process of data collecting. The indicators to decide which people are poor were also not reflected the real condition which procured conflicts. Another impact from this miscollecting of data was that inaccuracy of target group who supposed to received BLT.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

populasi

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities

Description

Populasi is a journal discussing population and policy issues. Populasi is published regularly twice a year in June and December. The Editorial Board receives manuscripts based on research, both on theoretical and empirical, related to population, policy, poverty, family planning, reproduction ...