Household Socio-Economic Survey, BPS 2008

Poverty is the fundamental problem facing many developing countries such as Indonesia. Poverty has always been a major agenda for development in Indonesia ranging from the administration of President Soekarno until the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Some poverty alleviation policies and programs have been proposed and implemented. The problem of poverty get more attention from the government, especially after the economic crisis in mid-1997. Even in the National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJMN) of 2004-2009 has targeted poverty reduction in Indonesia for five years from 16.7 percent in 2004 to 8.2 percent in 2009.
To support the poverty reduction strategy, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) believed the government to present data and information poverty. In measuring poverty, BPS uses the concept of the ability to meet basic needs (basic needs approach). With this approach, poverty is seen as an economic inability to meet basic food and non-food as measured from the expenditure side. The data source used is the data of National Socioeconomic Survey (SUSENAS) BPS conducted every year. The measurement method is based on the poverty level Poverty Line (GK), so that those who have an average per capita expenditure per month under GK categorized as poor. Unfortunately due to the limited number of samples, the bureau can only produce poverty indicators at national, provincial and district poverty indicators commonly called macro. The resulting indicators are only good for targeting the area but can not be used for targeting individual (household)