East Kalimantan Province Regional Poverty Alleviation Coordination Meeting 2024

Samarinda, (19/12) - Today the 2024 Regional Poverty Alleviation Coordination Meeting was successfully held at the Puri Senyiur Hotel, Samarinda. This activity was attended by Sri Wahyuni ​​as Regional Secretary of East Kalimantan Province, as well as resource persons from the Head of Representative of the Indonesian Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) for East Kalimantan and the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture (Kemenko PMK) who were also present online. Apart from that, all regional governments of East Kalimantan province, districts/cities, as well as 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 the Elimination of Extreme Poverty. One of the main focuses of this activity is updating data on extreme poor families through verification and validation of data from various districts/cities in East Kalimantan. Effective and data-based poverty reduction is a priority in realizing the target of 0 percent poverty rate.

This Coordination Meeting is the culmination of a series of poverty reduction coordination meetings which have been held starting in January. In the first month of 2024, a meeting was held to prepare the activity schedule for the 2024 Provincial Poverty Alleviation Coordination Team (TKPK), then in May a Pre-Meeting for the 2024 Poverty Alleviation and Stunting Reduction Coordination Meeting was held, continued on September 25, a verification and validation consolidation meeting was held poverty data for districts/cities throughout East Kalimantan, then on September 27 to 28, a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) meeting was held to prepare the plan Regional Poverty Alleviation (RPKD) together with Provincial SKPDs involved in poverty alleviation, then on 15 to 16 November, a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) meeting was held to prepare the Regional Poverty Alleviation Plan (RPKD) together with Regency/City TKPK throughout East Kalimantan, and 4 December 2024, a provincial TKPK consolidation meeting was held.

In the event that took place, the Head of Bappeda for East Kalimantan Province stated that poverty alleviation is a top priority in efforts to improve the welfare of the people of East Kalimantan.

Based on data from the East Kalimantan Province Central Statistics Agency (BPS), in March 2024, the percentage of poor people in our province will reach 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 joint synergy to reduce the extreme poverty rate to the target of 0 (zero) percent in 2026.

"The commitment that we will agree together at the end of this Coordination Meeting will later become material in the formulation of policies, both programs and activities in poverty alleviation as well as preparing a poverty database by name by address (BNBA ), so that all stakeholders can easily find out where the distribution of underprivileged people is so that poverty management can be carried out on target." said Yusliando in his speech.

For this reason, the meeting focused on agreement regarding the preparation of a more integrated Regional Poverty Alleviation Plan (RPKD) and Annual Action Plan (RAT), Submission of Regency/City Governments regarding verified poverty data and validation of P3KE and DTKS by name by address (BNBA) poverty data to the East Kalimantan Provincial Government as well as the use of the "East Kalimantan Integrated Poverty Handling Information System" application to support innovation in handling poverty.

This coordination also resulted in several agreements, including verification and validation of P3KE (Achievement of the Elimination of Extreme Poverty) and DTKS (Integrated Social Welfare Data) data as well as agreement regarding the time period for preparing response planning documents poverty at the provincial and district/city levels.

Through this meeting, it is hoped that poverty alleviation in East Kalimantan can be more coordinated, effective and data-based, in order to realize better prosperity for the people of East Kalimantan.

(SA)

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