Coordination Meeting of Poverty Reduction in East Kalimantan Province 2024

Samarinda, (12/19) - Today the Regional Poverty Reduction Coordination Meeting in 2024 was successfully held at the Puri Senyiur Hotel, Samarinda. This activity was attended by Sri Wahyuni ​​as the Regional Secretary of the Province of East Kalimantan, as well as resource persons from the Head of Representative of the East Kalimantan Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) and the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture (Kemenko PMK) of the Republic of Indonesia who were also present online. In addition, all Regional Government of East Kalimantan Province, Regency/City, and Vertical Agencies participated in today's meeting.

This coordination meeting aims to accelerate the elimination of extreme poverty in East Kalimantan, in accordance with Presidential Instruction Number 4 of 2022 concerning the Acceleration of Extreme Poverty Elimination. One of the main focus in this activity is updating the data of extreme poor families through verification and data validation from various districts/cities in East Kalimantan. Effective and data -based poverty reduction is a priority in realizing a 0 percent target of poverty.

This coordination meeting is the culmination of a series of poverty reduction coordination meetings that have been held starting from January. In the first month of 2024, a meeting was held for the preparation of the Provincial Poverty Reduction Coordinating Team (TKPK) in 2024, then in May the Poverty Reduction Coordination Meeting was held and the decline (FGD) Preparation of Regional Poverty Reduction Plans (RPKD) together with the Provincial SKPD of Poverty alleviation, then on 15 to November 16, a Focus Group Discussion Meeting (FGD) was held in the preparation of Regional Poverty Reduction Plans (RPKD) together with Regency/City TKPK in East Kalimantan, and

In the event that took place, the Head of the East Kalimantan Province Bappeda stated that poverty reduction was a top priority in an effort to improve the welfare of the people of East Kalimantan.

Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of East Kalimantan Province, in March 2024, the percentage of poor people in our province reached 5.78 percent, equivalent to 221,340 people. This figure shows a decrease of 0.33 percent or 9,730 people compared to March 2023. However, there needs to be a shared synergy to reduce extreme poverty to the target of 0 (zero) in 2026.

"The commitment that we will agree with at the end of this coordination meeting, will later become material in the formulation of policies both programs and activities in poverty reduction and preparation of poverty databases by name by address (BNBA), so that all stakeholders can easily find out where the community is unable to do it. Yusliando said in his remarks.

For this reason, the meeting is focused on the preparation of the Regional Poverty Reduction Plan (RPKD) and the more integrated annual action plan (RAT) as well as the use of the "East Kalimantan Integrated Poverty Handling Information System" to support innovation in handling poverty.

This coordination also produces several agreements, including verification and validation of P3KE data (Achievement of Extreme Poverty Elimination) and DTKS (Integrated Social Welfare Data) and agreement regarding the period of preparation of poverty reduction at the provincial and district/city level.

Through this meeting, it is expected that poverty reduction in East Kalimantan can run more coordinated, effective, and data-based, in order to realize better welfare for the people of East Kalimantan.

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