DARI MANA DAN MAU KEMANA KEMISKINAN
Studi Pendahuluan tentang Transformasi Nagari
THE ORIGIN AND JOURNEY OF POVERTY
Preliminary Study of Nagari Transformation
Oleh :
Endry Maltius
Nomor Kontrak : 089/J.16/PL/DIPA/IV/2005
ABSTRACT
Poverty can be sensibly identified in terms of low economic condition of human life.
However, in such a poverty perspective, it would be of functional poverty problems of physic and
technique related to the sluggish and ineffiCient economic within a community. This is the origin
of poverty problem as there is evidence that developing economic of com11Ulnity by increasing
its economic efficiency does not really decrease the poverty. Infact, as the study assumes, the
poverty problem has been going beyond the poverty functional variables, the so-called poverty
fundamental variables consisting of ethical system of economic behavior.
Discussing poverty problem in the context of nagari, it seems that povcrty is it to be
related to ethical system (moral obligation and deliberation) of anak nagari, akhlak of nagari
members. To be recognized as an ideal type, a nagari has to provide 'social security system', that
is mainly cultural and local mechanisms to protect anak nagari from poverty risks. By this
reason, to oppose the poverty in nagari is to do first with fundamental variables of poverty.
Functional entities of poverty are only derivatives of the fundamentals.
Based on this review literature study, it is suggesting to observe the economic
transformation of nagari that has brought about poverty in the light of its poverty fundamental
variables. These are not pondered by most literatures.