One important issue in policy design for poverty alleviation in Gunungkidul is the integration and coordination of various existing poverty programs. To optimize various existing poverty alleviation strategies, the Gunung Kidul Regency government took the initiative to form a Regional Poverty Alleviation Coordination Team (TKPKD), which functions as a cross-sectoral and cross-stakeholder coordination forum for poverty alleviation at the district level. The TKPKD was formed based on Presidential Regulation No. 54 of 2005 concerning the establishment of the Poverty Alleviation Coordination Team (TKPK). The main objective of establishing the TKPKD is to accelerate the process of reducing the number of poor people throughout Indonesia through synchronization and coordination of the preparation and implementation of poverty alleviation policies. Which is then followed up with the establishment of a TKPK at the regional level called the TKPKD. This is also emphasized in Presidential Regulation No. 15 of 2010 concerning the acceleration of poverty alleviation. The TKPKD was formed to optimize the coordinating and consultative functions at the regional level.
In Gunungkidul Regency itself, the process of forming TKPKD began in 2008. In 2008, the Regent of Gunung Kidul initiated the issuance of Regent's Decree No. 121/KPTS/2008 concerning the Establishment of the Gunung Kidul Regency Poverty Alleviation Working Group. In the decree, the regent appointed the deputy regent as the head of the working group.
Poverty is a multidimensional problem that requires comprehensive and integrated steps to handle it by involving all stakeholders. So since 2009, TKPKD Gunungkidul has involved all stakeholders in the Region to sit in the TKPKD structure, starting from community groups, bureaucracy, NGOs, and the business world. However, there are still several problems that have haunted TKPKD Gunungkidul, namely, related to the organizational process and institutional capacity of TKPKD and problems related to supporting systems such as poverty data and information systems, and other supporting problems. In 2011, based on Presidential Regulation No. 15 of 2010 and Minister of Home Affairs Regulation No. 42 of 2010, the Regent of Gunungkidul issued Regent Decree No. 23/KPTS/TIM/2011. It is hoped that with the issuance of this Decree, the performance problems of TKPKD Gunungkidul will be resolved so far. Of course, by taking concrete steps to overcome the problem of poverty in Gunungkidul. It is also important to listen to the voices of the poor in poverty reduction policy making. (TSW)
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