East Kalimantan Poverty Reduction Coordination Meeting

Balikpapan, 1/10/14. Head of Human Resources Development, Drs. H. Hariyo Santoso representing the Head of Bappeda Province of East Kalimantan deliver the remarks as well as opening the Socialization, Coordination and Monitoring Meeting of the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction of East Kalimantan Province in 2014 in the Sagita Hotel Meeting Room Jl. Mayjen Sutoyo No. 69 Balikpapan was attended by participants from the SKPD of the Provincial Government of East Kalimantan and Regency / City Bappeda in East Kalimantan totaling approximately 100 people.

Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Coordination Meeting of the Province of East Kalimantan in the context of accelerating poverty reduction, the government has issued Presidential Regulation Number 15 of 2010 concerning the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction. Whereas at the regional level the Provincial and Regency/City Poverty Reduction Coordination Team has been formed based on Regulation of the Minister of Home Affairs (Permendagri) Number 42 of 2010 concerning the Provincial and Regency/City Poverty Reduction Coordination Team (TKPKD). TKPKD is tasked with coordinating poverty reduction in their respective regions and controlling the implementation of policies and monitoring of poverty reduction programs in accordance with the decision of the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K).

In order to provide information about the progress of the achievement of poverty reduction programs and strengthening the Provincial and Regency/City TKPK institutions, the East Kalimantan Provincial Government through the East Kalimantan Province TKPK held a socialization, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the acceleration of poverty reduction in East Kalimantan from Wednesday - Thursday, 1-2 October 2014 in Balikpapan.
h. Hariyo Santoso told participants from the Provincial SKPD to be able to deliver poverty reduction programs/activities in 2014 (Matrix) while for Regency/City TKPK carrying LP2KD (Report on the Implementation of Regional Poverty Reduction) in 2013 and Decree on the Formation of Regency/City TKPK.

While the resource person from the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas Maliki, ST., M.Sc., P.HD conveyed the presentation with the title of the poverty reduction policy with important points including conveying the issue of gaps and vulnerability, namely the increasing population Medium, but vulnerable to economic shocks that can be very easy to bring them down the poverty line. Up to the percentile 40 is considered still vulnerable.

Conclusion
1. The achievement of the Poverty Reduction Program in East Kalimantan Province in a period of 5 years namely 2009 - 2013 experienced improvements, in terms of percentage in 2008 the poor were recorded at 9.51% (286,440 people) and in 2009 decreased to 7.73% (239,220 people), Meanwhile in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 in terms of absolute figures showed an increase of 243,000 people, 253,300 people, 253,300 people, 237,960 although the percentage of each year decreased by 7.66%, 6.77%, 6.68% and 6.06%;

2. Based on the above conditions, it will be used as an evaluation material for the Provincial Government of East Kalimantan to improve the performance of poverty reduction programs in the 2014 - 2018 period in order to achieve the target of poverty reduction from 6.06% in 2013 to 5.00% in 2018 ;

3. In addition, a picture of poverty profiles in the Province of East Kalimantan as stated by the National Team Resource Resource for Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) both in terms of consumption and other dimensions can be used as constructive input for improving the performance of the Poverty Reduction Coordination Team (TKPK) Prov. East Kalimantan in the next period;

4. To achieve the poverty rate of 5% in 2018, the active role with full sincerity of all stakeholders, both cross -sectoral (all provincial SKPD and related vertical agencies) and cross -regional (regencies/cities) need to be more intensified;

5. In order to reduce the level of poverty, the regional government needs to be guided by 3 (three) main issues of poverty reduction policies as stated by the National Team Resource Resource for Poverty Reduction (TNP2K), namely from the aspect of: a. Poverty, if the lower the level of poverty in an area, the more difficult it is to reduce it, therefore it requires the right and specific strategy.
b. Vulnerability, the increase in population with the level of consumption around the poverty line (GK) will cause falling poor in the event of an economic shock, so it is necessary to promote a program to meet food needs for the poor.
c. Gaps, in order to reduce the gap of community income, different policies are needed to be adjusted to the level of their pending.

6. The 2014 Quick Wins activities proposed by East Kalimantan have been accommodated by Bappenas with the location of Muara Ancalong District (East Kutai Regency), Manor Dui District (West Kutai Regency) and Anggana District (Kutai Kartanegara Regency);

7. To realize the Vision and Mission of the 2013 - 2018 RPJMD, especially in reducing poverty levels to 5.00% in 2018, "Institutional Revitalization and the Role of TKPK Prov. East Kalimantan "needs to be done in the hope that" the stronger the TKPK institution, the more effective the reduction of poverty in the regions ".

8. Furthermore, as an effort to revitalize the TKPK Prov. East Kalimantan in Perode 2014-2018, then all members of the TKPK together need to focus on the following matters:
a. Encourage and ensure that the poverty reduction strategy Prov. East Kalimantan 2014 - 2018 is in line with the 2015 - 2019 RPJMN;
b. Maintain and ensure that the poverty reduction program that has been stated by the RPJMD of East Kalimantan Province in 2013 - 2018 to remain consistently elaborated and referred to into the SKPD and RKPD Strategic Plan and Renja SKPD comprehensively (per cluster);
c. Encourage and keep the planning and budgeting process to produce relevant and effective APBDs for poverty reduction;
d. Control the monitoring of the implementation of poverty reduction programs in the provinces and districts /cities;
e. Compile and submit a complete and timely and timely report on the implementation of regional poverty reduction (LP2KD) which will be an input for TNP2K;
f. Coordinate the preparation of Regional Poverty Reduction Strategies (SPKD) as a reference for the RPJMD in the field of poverty reduction.

(Public Relations Bappeda Province of East Kalimantan/Sukandar, S. Sos).