According to Wikipedia, Indonesian poverty is a situation where there is an inability to meet basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health. Poverty may be caused by the scarcity of means of fulfilling basic needs or the difficulty of access to education and employment.

 The problem of poverty is a complex issue and globally. Indonesia's poverty problems such as endless. still a lot we find beggars and vagrants hanging around not only in the countryside and even in big cities such as Jakarta is a view of such a spectacle every day.

 Indonesia is now in poverty is getting worse. The amount of poverty in Indonesia in March 2009 alone reached 32.53 million, or 14.15 percent. Poverty is not merely an economic problem but a cultural and structural poverty.

     Hari Susanto said general instruments used to determine whether a person or group of people in these communities are poor or can not be monitored by using the size of the increase in income or consumption level of a person or group of people. Though the nature of poverty can be seen from various factors. Whether it is the socio-cultural, economic, political, and legal.

     According to Koerniatmanto Soetoprawiro mention in Latin, there is the term esse (to be) or (human dignity) and habere (to have) or the (property or ownership).Therefore, most people better understood the problem of poverty in the context of habere. Poor people are those who do not master and have something. Poverty matters purely economic affairs.

    When we are look at the condition of society today. Many of them are not able to meet the needs of food, clothing, and shelter. In fact, just to defend their basic rights and survival alone is not capable. Moreover, developing a life of honor and dignity.

     Prolonged economic crisis adds to a long series of problems that make this country more and more difficult to get out of the shackles of poverty. This can be proved from the high dropout rates and illiteracy. Not to mention the unemployment rate increased "significantly." The number of open unemployment in 2007 in Indonesia as many as 12.7 million people. Plus the high malnutrition, starvation / malnutrition, and lastly, people who eat "Nasi Aking."

 A. Impact of Poverty

 The impact of poverty on society, in general, are so numerous and complex, including:

 1. Unemployment.
    With unemployment means that many people do not have income for not working. Because it does not work and has no income they are unable to meet their food needs. Automatically unemployment has reduced their competitiveness and the purchasing public. Thus, will provide a direct impact on the level of income, nutrition, and the average level of expenditure.

 2. Violence.
    The violence that is rife lately the effects of unemployment. Because a person can no longer make a living through the right path and lawful. When there is no longer a guarantee for a person to survive and sustain life then shortcuts were carried out. For example, robbery, armed robbery, steal or cheat. Later many elements that use deception mode via SMS.

 3. Education
    High dropout rates is a phenomenon that occurs today. The high costs of education, the poor can no longer reach the world of school or education. Due to eating one meal a day they had trouble.
Conditions such as these make the poor worse off deeper. The high dropout rate in the least impacts on a person's level of education. That would reduce the chance of someone getting a better job. This will lead to rising unemployment as a result of not being able to compete in a globalized world that demands skills in all areas.

 4. Health Care
    As we all know, the cost of treatment is now very expensive. Almost every clinic treatment of especially big private hospitals to apply tariffs or the cost of treatment that costs soar. Thus, the cost is beyond the reach of the poor.

 B. Poverty Alleviation Efforts in Indonesia
     As has been mentioned above that poverty is a complex and multidimensional problem that is inseparable from the development of mechanisms of economic, social and political force. Therefore, any efforts to eradicate poverty completely demanding a review down to the core of the problem. So, there was no shortcut to alleviate this poverty problem. Penanggulanganya can not be done in haste.

     The government's commitment to eradicating poverty contained in the Medium Term Development Plan (Plan) 2005-2009 is based on national poverty reduction strategy (PRSP). Besides co-signed the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) for 2015, in its RPJM government has formulated the main objectives on poverty reduction for 2009, including an ambitious target to reduce the poverty rate from 18.2 percent in 2002 to 8.2 percent in 2009.

     In the implementation of programs to alleviate the fate of the poor, success depends on the initial steps of policy formulation, ie identifying who the "have-nots" is and where it is located. Both of these questions can be answered by looking at the profile of the poor.

     There are three prominent features of poverty in Indonesia. First, many households who were around the national poverty line, which is equivalent to PPP-US $ 1.55 per day, so many people that even though classified as not poor but are vulnerable to poverty. Second, the poverty measure is based on income, so it does not describe the real poverty threshold. Many people who may not be classified as poor in terms of revenue can be categorized as poor on the basis of lack of access to basic services and low human development indicators. Third, given the very breadth and diversity of Indonesia, the differences between regions is a fundamental characteristic of poverty in Indonesia.

    Three ways to help people lift themselves out of poverty is through economic growth, public services, and government spending. Each of these ways to handle at least one of the three main characteristics of poverty in Indonesia, namely: the vulnerability, the multi-dimensional nature, and regional disparities. In other words, an effective poverty reduction strategy for Indonesia made up of three components:

 1) Making Growth Work for the Poor.
Economic Growth in 2015
    Economic growth has been and will remain the cornerstone for poverty alleviation. First, steps to make growth work for the poor is key to linking the poor to the growth process in the context of rural-urban or in various groupings based on regions and islands. It is fundamental to addressing the issue of regional disparities. Second, to address the vulnerability characteristic of poverty associated with the dense concentration of income distribution in Indonesia, anything that can increase the income of the people will be able to quickly reduce poverty and vulnerability of poverty.

      Making growth work for the poor requires steps to bring them in an effective way out of poverty. This means utilizing the ongoing structural transformation in Indonesia is characterized by two phenomena. First, there is a shift from rural-based activities to urban-based activities. Secondly, there has been a prominent shift from farming (farm) to non-farm activities (non-farm). This transformation suggests two important pathways that have been taken by the household out of poverty in Indonesia. namely:
A. Increasing agricultural productivity.
B. The increase in non-farm productivity, both in urban and in rural      areas "urbanizing" quickly.

 2) Making Social Services Work for the Poor.
     Provision of social services to the poor both by the public sector or the private sector is essential to addressing poverty in Indonesia. First, it is key in addressing the non-income dimensions of poverty in Indonesia. Human development indicators are unfavorable, such as high maternal mortality rate, should be addressed by improving the quality of services available to the poor. It is more than just the issue of the levels of public spending, it is about improving systems of accountability, service delivery mechanisms, and even government processes. Second, the nature of regional disparities largely reflected in disparities in access to services, which ultimately results in disparities in human development outcomes in various regions. Thus, making services work for poor people is key to addressing the problem of poverty in the context of regional disparities.

     Making services work for the poor requires improving institutional accountability systems and providing incentives for the improvement of human development indicators. Currently, poor service delivery is the core problem of low human development indicators, or poverty in the non-income dimensions, such as poor health and education services. Another area that requires attention is the improved access for the poor to services to suppress the regional disparities in terms of human development indicators. In education, one of the key problems is the high dropout rates in poor communities as they transition from primary to secondary school education. In addressing the multidimensional aspects of poverty, efforts should be directed at improving service delivery, particularly the improvement of the quality of the service itself. These efforts can be embodied in the form:
A. Increasing the participation rate of the junior high school.
B. Basic health services are better for the poor and for the service provider.
C. Solve the problems faced by the poor in accessing clean water and sanitation.
D. Clarify functional responsibilities in the provision of services.
E. Fix the placement and management of civil servants.
F. Provide greater incentives for service providers.

 3) Making Public Expenditure Work for the Poor.
    In addition to the economic growth and social services, by targeting spending on the poor, the government can help them in the face of poverty (in terms of both revenue and non-revenue). First, government spending can be used to help those who are vulnerable to income poverty through a modern social protection systems that increase their ability to deal with economic uncertainty. Second, government spending can be used to improve human development indicators, so as to overcome the poverty of non-income aspects. Making expenditures for the poor is crucial at this time, particularly given the existence of the fiscal opportunities that exist in Indonesia at present.

     Reduction of fuel subsidies is a major step towards the government's public spending more pro-poor. Until now, government spending can not always be effectively overcome the obstacles faced by the poor out of poverty. When the government has increased fiscal space following the reallocation of regressive fuel subsidies, it is important to ensure that this expenditure actually has a positive impact on the poor. The government now has the opportunity to address the issue of the high vulnerability of the poor in Indonesia by channeling spending into a social security system that is able to reduce this vulnerability. One important component of this reallocation of government spending is focused on ways to improve poor people's incomes. Government spending that could have a direct impact on the increase in income will also have a positive impact on addressing poverty. One of the priorities to be put forward and been started by the government is to expand the scope of community-driven development (community driven development CDD).