Refleksi : Beberapa waktu lalu ketika SBY berkunjung ke Australia, diberikan bantuan kurang lebih A$ 250 juta oleh pemerintah Australia untuk ditangani orang miskin di Indoneia. Agaknya dengan ada bantuan ini Menteri Kesejahteraan Agung Laksono bisa ngoceh untuk dikurangi jumlah orang miskin menjadi 16 juta. Tidak jelas apakah penurunan jumlah orang miskin ini hanya untuk sementara waktu selama uang bantuan tsb dikonsumsi ataukah akan menjadi keadaan permanen dan hanya bisa dibaca dalam sejarah. Lebih dari itu patut diingatkan bahwa pada umumnya sesuai apa yang telah menjadi hukum alam terhadap pemerintahan negara kleptokratik guna mencipta perbaikan tingkat hidup bagai rakyat miskin adalah suatu masalah sulit menjadi tidak dimungkinkan, jadi konkritnya seperti dikatakan lihat saja nanti ["seeing is believing"!]
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http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/1268479042/govt-to-lower-number-of-poor-to-16-million
Govt to lower number of poor to 16 million
Saturday, March 13, 2010 18:17 WIB | National |
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Agung
Laksono said the government was planning to slash the number of poor people in
the country to 16 million by 2014.
"The government has set a target of reducing the number of poor people to 16
million by 2014," Minister Agung Laksono said here on Saturday.
The number of poor people currently was around 32 million or over 14 percent of
the country`s population.
It would be a very heavy task cutting the number into only eight percent or 16
million as it is only four years left to 2014, he said.
Therefore, the government was doing efforts to speed up the poverty eradication
programs, he said.
He explained that Vice President Boediono last Wednesday (March 10) led a
coordinating meeting on poverty eradication with cabinet ministers.
In the meeting, they decided to set up a national team on poverty eradication
acceleration program as stipulated in the presidential decree No. 15/2010 and
led by Vice President Boediono.
Vice chairmen of the team are Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Agung
Laksono and Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa.
The team`s members include Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi, Finance
Minister Sri Mulyani, Social Affairs Minister Salim Segaf Al Jufri, Public
Affairs Minister Djoko Kirmanto, Head of the Presidential Working Unit on
Development Supervision Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam, and
Chairman of the National Development Plan Agency Armida Alisyahbana.
To support the program, the government will update data on the country`s
poor.(*)
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