CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY
A. Background

Poverty and famine is a problematic issue which is possibly ever happened in every country
in the world. There’s a lot of reason can caused the poverty and famine, for example like the lack
of natural resources, human resources, etc.

Indonesia has been signed Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) on September 2000. This
declaration contain a commitment of each countries to achieve all 8 goals in this declaration. All
of the goals is aiming society’s prosperous in the country.

One of MDGs is to eradicate extreme poverty and famine*. Time given to achieve this goal is
15 years and targeted to decrease 50% indigent society in the country. According to Central
Bureau of Statistics, the number of poverty in Indonesia was about 15,10% of population on
1990 and 10,96% of population on September 2014.

Nowadays 2015 already. It means that the time of MDGs will be over anytime soon. In 15
years, Indonesia has been decreased 4,13% indigent society. We couldn’t say this is a success
though, because the target was about decreasing indigent society (including poverty and
famine) to the number 7,55% until this 2015. So we could say that our achievement of
decreasing poverty and famine still faraway from the target.

Apart from unsuccessful to reach the target of MDGs, Indonesia’s now have some problem
about Rupiah’s value of exchange. On this September, Rupiah’s value down to Rp14.145/US$1.
This possibly could increase the number of poverty in Indonesia.

B. Issues

In this essay, we would like to reveal about poverty and famine that happened in Indonesia,
which’ll be written on the next chapter. The main problem that we would like to reveal is about
why poverty and famine can be happened in Indonesia and how MDGs can help us to
minimalizing the number of poverty and famine.

C. Aim

This essay made to prove that poverty and famine can be decreased step by step and how
MDGs can help us minimalizing the number of poverty and famine. And we would like to reveal
about how Indonesia’s government put an effort to minimalizing the number of that.

D. Parameter(?)**

Our parameter for this essay is Indonesia. As in, the poverty and famine that only happened
in Indonesia, why those can happenned, and how to fix that.

CHAPTER II
MAIN ISSUES(?)***
Poverty and famine, like we all know, is a problematic issues related to economical issues.
Poverty is a condition where someone don’t have enough assets to support their life, when
someone’s needed can’t be fullfiled. And famine is a condition when someone needed to eat
can’t be fullfiled or a condition when someone’s body don’t given by enough nutrition or
callories.
 In Indonesia, the number of the poverty and famine’s quite high. The poverty, for example,
is reach 10,96% population or around 27,73 million people on 2014. And for famine, on 2015
the proportion of society with minimum consumtion 1.400 kkal/person/day still going on
17,39% population and the minimum consumtion 2.000 kkal/person/day is around 66,96%
population. Really large scale for lack of callories.

As we know that, poverty and famine is related to each other. Usually when people become
poor, they start to have lack of nutrition and callories. So, decreasing the number of poverty
could possibly help people from suffering from hunger.

The reason why poverty and famine could happened in Indonesia apparently because the
low-standart human resources. This happened because people oftenly ignore education and
became uneducated. Why this kind of thing could increase the poverty and famine is because
the education is very important to obtain the job. Because of they ignore education, they become
jobless. This number of jobless that possibly can increase the number of overty and famine. If
people become jobless, they can’t buy anything, that’s why the number of jobless’s also affect
the number of poverty and famine.

Proportion of indigent society in the village is more than in the city. National Social
Economic Survey 2004 told us that 69,0% Indonesia society included as indigent and majority
work as a farmer. Even if the village have more precentage of indigent society, it doesn’t mean
that the city have low precentage of indigent society. The precentage always increasing year by
year commonly caused by urbanitation. People think that live in the city they could easily get a
job or similiar reason, but not just sometimes they only made theirselves suffering. This also
counted as a factor why poverty and famine could be increased.

The other reason why poverty and famine could happened is because high cost of living.
The price of all needed in market is always following the policy of the government. And the
policy’s look throughout the economical condition of Indonesia. For example, like nowadays,
Rupiah’s value of exhange down to Rp14.145/US$1. This kind of thing could affect the price of
our needed in the market. The reason why the value of exchange can be affect significanltly to
government policy and cost of living is possibly because Indonesia import a lot. The lack of
facilities and high-tech machine to cultivate natural resources, so we should export the raws to
other country to cultivate it then buy it again as ready products.

To handle this issues, government already did so much effort to minimalize, such as
subsidize for educational bussiness and some free facilities to indigent society. Even if people
said that the government not doing that good, the government prove that they could decrease
the number of poverty and famine.

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PS: err... ths s so.... unfinished. I md th cncpt alr but I’m sorry I can’t continue this right now, I
feel so dizzy. I even think I’d be vomitting anytime soon. And tbh i still don’t understand with
the topic and the writing style, and i feel so oot rn n everytime i write (thats y i refused to give
my ‘nuclear’ work to you). I’m sorry~~~ if u hv a time pls teach me bt ths, id apprct it, thx.

*originally wrttn as “poverty and hunger’

**wht’s ruang lingkup in eng?
***i dnt even sure bt th ttl