| Summary: | Malinau is one of the border regencies in North Borneo Province, where
poverty is one of the major issues in regional development. The high rate of
poverty indicates that the policies issued by local government have not been
sufficiently effective in alleviating poverty. There are weaknesses of the poverty
alleviation programs because they do not provide the appropriate solution, and the
existing policies are similar without taking the characteristics of the existing
poverty into account.
This study was conducted by using a deductive thinking process with two
analytical methods: First, a descriptive analysis which is to provide a general
description of poverty conditions in Malinau Kota Subdistrict and the
characteristics of relevant variables in the study as well as to evaluate the
autonomous village development movement program and poverty conditions in
Malinau Kota Subdistrict. Second, a multiple linear regression analysis which is
to determine the factors influencing the poverty in Malinau Kota Subdistrict.
The results of the study show that the presence of productive assets in poor
families was the main factor causing poverty in Malinau Kota Subdistrict. In the
implementation of autonomous village development movement program, the main
focus was to increase productive assets in the poor families. However, the impact
of the program could be assessed as less maximum in the poor families, because
the program and implementation of development activities do not take the
characteristics of the poor families into account. One of its main objectives of the
program is to reduce poverty, but the participation of the poor family was not the
primary criterion to engage in the activities of autonomous village development
movement program. As a result, the existing program as one of the objectives or
targets was not achieved, primarily in relation with poverty reduction.
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