Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation under the Indonesia's New Order

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ISSN: '1829-975X

HISTORIA
JURNAL
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SEJARAIIEKONO}I I,{S IA:
BERBAGAI PERSPEK'TIFKO\TP\R.\ tI T'
Pierre YanDcr l:ns
SATUABAD TRANSMI(;R,\SIDI I\ D0\I]SI,\
PERJALANAI\ISEJARAII PEI,AKSA\ A,\\ \\ A.
l9ll5 -2005
Nugraha Setitx,on
ECONOMIC GROWTHAI\II) POVER'T\.\I-I,}]\ I^ I'IO\
IJNDERTI{E INIX)NI.]SIA'S\E\I ORI)T]R
S. Nax'itanto
PERUBAHATiT]KOLOCIS
DI DAERAH PING(;IR.\}i .I,\\\.\

STUDI KASUSDAERAH f,KS KARESIDF]\.\\ BEST]KI
RedtolTiaurni DKK
MIGRASI ORANGMADURA D,\N ,IA\\'A KE .'EMBER
(SUATUKAJHN HIS'I'OIII S KOM PAII.\'I'IT)
EdYBurhon .lrifin

JURUSANSEJARAHFAKULTASSASTRA

JEMBER
UNIVERSITAS

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POVERTYALLEVIATION
TINDERTHf,, INDONESIA'SNEW ORDER
S. Nawiyanto

Abstrrk:
pro.lekpenanggulangan
Tulisanini membabas
kemiskinandi Indonesia
selamaera Orde Baru.Diargumentasikan

bahwasekalipuntidak secara
menyeluruh,
buktikualitatif.dan
kuantitatifmenunjukkan
berbagai
sejumlah
jelek.
progmm.tersebut
yr,ng
memberikan
hasil
tidakt€rlalu
KalaupunOrdc
Baru akhimyaditinggalkansejarah,pcrsoalannya
agaknyalebih banyak
terlelakpada dimensipolitis sepertituntutanyang meningkatakan
politik.Harus
demokatisasi.
transparansi,
dan kerinduanakanperubahan

dicatatbahwakrisisekonomiyangmemudarkan
legitimasisenamengantar
DadakcruntuhanOrde Baru bemuasaldari faktor ekstemalketimbans
intemal

Kats kurci: Poverty,
economicgroMh, NewOrder

I.Introduction
ln the postsecondworld war era,developmenhlissueshaveb€comethe mainconcem
especiallyamonglhe developingcountries.Many newly emergingcountrieshaving
achievedindependence
fromcolonialrulebeganto concenlrate
thcir inlerests
on national
development.
Thisstepwastakento liberatethemfrombackwardness
andto improvethe
welfareof the population.ln general,the marerialstandardof living in the developing
countrieswasverylow anda largenumberoftheir populationlivedin povertyshowinga

strikingdifferencefrom the developed
countries.r
Oneof the main issuesraisedin this
periodwasto accelerate
economiagroMh in orderto achieveanequallevelofprosp€rity
as enjoyedby thc devclopedcountries.It wasassumedthat by acceleratinll
economic
groMhtheconditionsofchronicpovertycouldbe alleviated.
That strategywasalsoadoptedin the caseof Indonesia,
panicularlyduringthe
NewOrderperiod( 1970-1998)BeforetheeconomiccrisisbroughttheNew Orderto an
end,Indonesia
wasfrequentlydescrib€d
asa success
storyofeconomicdevelopment,
as
for example,by Hill andMackie.lThis presentarticlediscusses
theconelationb€tw€en
rapidcconomicgroMh arrdpovertyalleviationduringthe Indonesia's
New Orderperiod


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