RURAL PROBLEMS

HASTU PRABATMODJOResearch Group in Regional and Rural

PlanningSAPPK-ITB

Outputs of Rural Planning

Perencanaan Kawasan Perdesaan

Perencanaan agropolitan

Perencanaan kebijakan/program pembangunan sektor

RPJM Des

Rencana Tataruang

POVERTY: The Biggest Challenge

It includes many aspects of incapacity (economically, socially, politically)

It is in tandem with inadequate living conditions

It brings about impacts on the environment

It creates social and political problems

It is a persistent problem

It Contradicts with Humanity!!

Inequalities: The Next Challenge

Rural-urban

Internal rural areas

Poverty Defined

Based on absolute measures (income) basic living requirements

Based on relative terms socially constructed

Rural Problems

Population growth

Limited resources

Limited infrastructure

and facilities

Low

Productivity Rural Poverty

Urban bias policy

Inadequate

knowledge & skills

Factors of Poverty

Internal to rural areas: Population/people

Activities

Productive assets

Resources (natural and man-made)

External to rural areas: National policies

Global factors

Levels of Explanation

Individual: Less productive attitude and behavior

Community: Local culture

Local resources/assets

Macro: Policy of local government

Impeding national and global factors

Is Globalization Good?

Asymmetric relations between LDCs and DCs neo colonialism

It increases competition

It creates opportunity (for whom)

Is Rural-urban Migration Good?

Relies on urban industrialization

Urban capacity to cope with the influx of rural people

The capacity of rural-urban migrants

Impacts on food/agricultural production?

Is Agrarian Reform Necessary?

Availability of land

Economic and political consequences

Rural Problems:The National Government Says

Limited employment

Limited economic linkages sectorally and spatially

Barriers to interregional trade

Risk and vulnerability of farmers and business actors

Limited assets of rural people

Low services

Low quality of human resources

Conversion of fertile-irrigated land

Environmental degradation

Institution and community organization weaknesses

Problems of coordination

Assignment

Form a group of three students

Write a short essay (maximum 5 pages, 1 space) titled Towards Solutions to Rural Problems

It is supported with proper citation and relevant references

Submit it in the next meeting