PRESIDENT TO LAUNCH POVERTY-HANDLING PROGRAM IN FEBRUARY
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was reported to officially launch the PNPM, a new program designed to accelerate the handling of poverty in urban and rural areas by empowering the people`s economy as of February this year.
"If possible at the end of this year or in February, the people`s empowerment national program (PNPM) will have been launched nationally," said Dr Sojana Royat, Deputy Minister for Poverty Handling at the People`s Welfare Coordinating Ministry, said after attending a meeting on PNPM here on Wednesday.
The launching will be highlighted with a dialogue between the head of state and members of the community, so that the people as a whole will directly know how to participate in the program.
The official launching was designed to provide the people with a information on concrete steps the government has taken to minimize poverty and to create job opportunities, he said.
PNPM is like a instrument which accelerates the handling of poverty and creates people-based job opportunities in 2007, 2008 and in many years to come.
In 2007, PNPM will only handle two programs, namely sub-district development program (PPK) and urban poverty handling program (P2KP).
In 2008, the score of work will have to be extended to become five programs, namely (1) PPK, (2) (P2KP), (3) unfortunate and special regional development program (P2DTK), (4) infrastructure and socio-economic zone development (PISEW) and (5) joint business groups (KUBE).
Under the PNPM program, the number of poor people in 2007 reached 31.92 million or about 9.76 million poor families consisting of (1) rural PNPM target of about 21.92 million poor people (5.46 million poor families) and (2) urban PNPM with a target of about 10 million people people (2.5 million poor families).
In the meantime, new job opportunities that could be created is predicted to range from 12.5 up to 14.4 million annually with an assumption that there are 8 to 20 villages participating in each sub-district for PPK and P2KP programs and each village creates at least 250 new job opportunitoes each year.
In addition, the number of sub-districts included in PNPM program in 2007 reached over 2,891 sub-districts consisting of 2,057 rural PNPM-related sub-districts and 834 urban PNPM-related sub-districts.
Each sub-district was reported to get direct public assistance of Rp500 million to Rp1.5 billion annually tailored with the number of poor people in each sub-district.
PNPM fund for 2007 is estimated to reach Rp4.42 trillion devided into rural PNPM amounting to Rp2.48 trillion and urban-PNPM standing at Rp1.95 trillion, Sojana stressed.
Of the total, Rp3.62 trillion will be taken from the state budget of 2007 and around Rp813 billion constitutes a constribution from the regional governments through cost-sharing mechanism.
PNPM will however give a certain portion of the budget in revolving funds and direct public assistance (BLM) to be managed by wormen, he said. (*)
Copyright © 2006 ANTARA
January 18, 2007
"If possible at the end of this year or in February, the people`s empowerment national program (PNPM) will have been launched nationally," said Dr Sojana Royat, Deputy Minister for Poverty Handling at the People`s Welfare Coordinating Ministry, said after attending a meeting on PNPM here on Wednesday.
The launching will be highlighted with a dialogue between the head of state and members of the community, so that the people as a whole will directly know how to participate in the program.
The official launching was designed to provide the people with a information on concrete steps the government has taken to minimize poverty and to create job opportunities, he said.
PNPM is like a instrument which accelerates the handling of poverty and creates people-based job opportunities in 2007, 2008 and in many years to come.
In 2007, PNPM will only handle two programs, namely sub-district development program (PPK) and urban poverty handling program (P2KP).
In 2008, the score of work will have to be extended to become five programs, namely (1) PPK, (2) (P2KP), (3) unfortunate and special regional development program (P2DTK), (4) infrastructure and socio-economic zone development (PISEW) and (5) joint business groups (KUBE).
Under the PNPM program, the number of poor people in 2007 reached 31.92 million or about 9.76 million poor families consisting of (1) rural PNPM target of about 21.92 million poor people (5.46 million poor families) and (2) urban PNPM with a target of about 10 million people people (2.5 million poor families).
In the meantime, new job opportunities that could be created is predicted to range from 12.5 up to 14.4 million annually with an assumption that there are 8 to 20 villages participating in each sub-district for PPK and P2KP programs and each village creates at least 250 new job opportunitoes each year.
In addition, the number of sub-districts included in PNPM program in 2007 reached over 2,891 sub-districts consisting of 2,057 rural PNPM-related sub-districts and 834 urban PNPM-related sub-districts.
Each sub-district was reported to get direct public assistance of Rp500 million to Rp1.5 billion annually tailored with the number of poor people in each sub-district.
PNPM fund for 2007 is estimated to reach Rp4.42 trillion devided into rural PNPM amounting to Rp2.48 trillion and urban-PNPM standing at Rp1.95 trillion, Sojana stressed.
Of the total, Rp3.62 trillion will be taken from the state budget of 2007 and around Rp813 billion constitutes a constribution from the regional governments through cost-sharing mechanism.
PNPM will however give a certain portion of the budget in revolving funds and direct public assistance (BLM) to be managed by wormen, he said. (*)
Copyright © 2006 ANTARA
January 18, 2007
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