Sorong is included in the six regions with the highest poverty. For that reason, Sorong will make efforts to deal with it. In 2023, Sorong Regency committed reducing poverty rate.
Sorong Enters the List of Six Regions with the Highest Poverty Rates
It is delivered by the Special Staff of the Minister of Home Affairs for Village Planning and Border Development, Hairuddin Hasibuan. Sorong Regency is included in the six regions in West Papua with the highest poverty rate.
The six regions on the list are Tambrauw Regency, Raja Ampat Regency, and Maybrat Regency. In addition, South Sorong Regency, Sorong Regency, and Sorong City.
To surmount the crisis conveyed by Hairuddin Hasibuan, the Sorong Regency Government is committed to reducing the region’s poverty rate. The government of Sorong Regency intends to reduce the poverty rate by up to one percent. For the record, the rate of destitution in Sorong in 2022 was 26.78 percent.
Targeted Actions
The Sorong Regency Government will take the proper actions to ensure the Sorong Local Government achieves its target. In short, the Sorong Regency Government will create a comprehensive plan to alleviate poverty.
(8/04/2023), the Regent of Sorong, Yan Piet Mosso, explained his commitment to tackling the poverty rate in Sorong. In his dialogue, the way to optimize this program is to take advantage of regional instruments. Optimizing each regional apparatus’s work program will overcome Sorong’s high poverty rate.
Yan Piet Mosso instructs that the future program is realized in a directed and targeted manner. Therefore, the implementation of this countermeasures poverty program can run optimally.
“The program must be directed and based on concrete data to have an impact,” Yan Piet Mosso emphasized.
To realize a program that can later impact reducing the poverty rate, Yan Piet Mosso asked for the cooperation of all Regional Apparatus Organizations (ODP). Regent of Sorong emphasized that all district heads should be able to record detailed data on the people categorized as poor.
Yan Piet Mosso emphasized that all related OPDs must implement a system of directly working down to community locations. Thus, it will be faster for the government to get the required data. This action, of course, can impact accelerating the handling of this poverty case.
With the initial action of the community administrator at the district level, Yan Piet Mosso hopes that the realization of the poverty alleviation program in Sorong can be right on target.
The Regent of Sorong Invites All Parties to Participate in Poverty Alleviation
To reduce the poverty rate in Sorong, of course, it is not easy for local governments to do it alone. Therefore, Yan Piet Mosso invites all parties to participate in handling the urgency of this poverty case in Sorong.
According to him, the proper approach to addressing cases of destitution is to address them simultaneously and collaboratively. In light of this fact, the local government and other institutions in Sorong must be able to work together to reduce poverty.
Previously, in the year 2022, the Sorong Regency government successfully lowered the percentage of people living in extreme poverty. Specifically, the poverty rate in Sorong Regency decreased from 14.86 percent in 2021 to 12.09 percent in 2022.
Last March, the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK), Muhajir Effendy, appreciated this success. He says this achievement results from effective communication between various public and private organizations.
As Sorong Regency Committed Reducing Poverty Rate again, it is believed that the Sorong Regency, committed to reducing the Poverty Rate, will likely run smoothly. Of course, with collaborative cooperation between several institutions.
