| Summary: | Poverty is a worldwide phenomenon that has a lot of dimensions, lack of
education can also be seen as a cause of poverty. Education factors causing someone
could not get out of poverty chain, he could not get a decent job with enough income.
Poverty reduction became the main target of government policy in some
developing countries. To meet this, the Indonesian government created programs that
pro-poor, its name is Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH). This program appertain to
the type of conditional cash transfers, PKH is planned to run until 2015, and is
targeting to touch 6.5 million poor households. This study focused on the impact of
PKH on poverty through its educational interventions.
Logistic regression showed that children who come from families receiving
PKH has a tendency 9 times more likely to attend school than children who come
from families not receiving PKH. This program should be continued or extended
even more, it proven to provide positive results on the level of school
attendance. This is expected to encourage the achievement of a decent level of
education for children who come from PKH beneficiaries.
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