Role of Hope Family Program (Program Keluarga Harapan) In Improving Management Access to Basic Education Service among Poor Family Children in Indonesia
- September 20, 2019
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: IJRISS, Social Science
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue IX, September 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186
M. Cholis Hasan1, Kusmawan2, Ahmad Suryadi3, Adi Fahrudin4
1Scholar of Doctoral Program, University of Muhammadiyah, Jakarta, Indonesia
2Professor, Institute of Technology and Business Ahmad Dahlan, Jakarta, Indonesia
3Professor of Education Management, University of Muhammadiyah, Jakarta, Indonesia
4Professor of Social Work, University of Muhammadiyah, Jakarta, Indonesia
Abstract: The poor people and neglected children are cared for by the state, according to the article 34 paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution. According to Law Number 13 Year 2011 article 1 point 1 d, The word “poor people” is interpreted as a person who is does not have a source of livelihood and / or has a livelihood but does not have the ability to meet the needs that are appropriate for the life of himself or his family.
PKH is a part of efforts in poverty eradication which was launched firstly through a trial program in 2007, in the era of Kabinet Indonesia Bersatu which was led by President of RI Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whose targets are Very Poor Households (RTSM) or Very Poor Families (KSM), namely those whose conditions are very concerning, especially related to health and education, and therefore the participation of PKH is only related to the health and education component. The writing focuses on the education component, because education is an integral part of the success of national development. The fact shows that the implementation of education has not been experienced by all of the Indonesian people, especially poor families based on data from the Central Statistics Agency in 2013 showing that the number of dropped-out children at the age of 7-12 years reached 0.67 percent, age 13-15 years reached 2.21 percent, and aged 16-18 years reached 3.14 percent.Whereas, UNICEF data in 2015 revealed that 2.5 million children in Indonesia could not get education, which consists of 600 thousand elementary school-aged children (SD) and 1.9 million junior high school-aged children (SMP). The main cause of this situation is the lack of awareness and / or understanding of poor families about the importance of education for a better future, and the lack of sufficient funds so that the children are unable to go to school (dropping out of school).To answer this challenge, the Government intervened through PKH, namely conditional cash assistance in order to make the poor families feel motivated to send their children to school or re-send their dropped-out children to school.
This research evaluation is aimed to see about how far the implemented policy such as regulation/rule of legislation that related to education program of PKH and its implementation in the field both for the local government and the accuracy of the program targets.
Keywords: Program Keluarga Harapan, objective and goal
