Analysis of Poverty Alleviation Strategy in the 2025-2029 RPJMD Document of Sorong City: Multidimensional Approach in the Context of Decentralization
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multidimensional poverty, poverty alleviation strategy, fiscal decentralizationAbstract
This study aims to analyze poverty alleviation strategies in the 2025-2029 RPJMD of Sorong City using a multidimensional approach. Sorong City shows a decrease in poverty rates from 15.35% (2021) to 13.67% (2024), but still faces the challenges of increasing income inequality (Gini Ratio 0.283 to 0.347) and high unemployment (TPT 9.85%). Based on the analysis of regional planning documents and measurement of socio-economic indicators, this study identifies four main strategies in the RPJMD: strengthening adaptive social protection, economic transformation based on local potential, market-oriented vocational training, and digitalization of public services. Although planning and accountability show positive performance, implementation is hampered by regional fiscal limitations (independence level 27.42%). Poverty in Sorong City is multidimensional, involving aspects of education (average length of schooling 11.57 years), informality of work, unplanned urbanization, disparities in access to health services, and spatial inequality between the center and the periphery. The study recommends funding innovation through KPBU, digital-based tax optimization, and budgeting based on micro-social-economic data. Furthermore, cross-sector synergy and alignment between regions are key to addressing the complexity of structural poverty in Sorong City.
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