UPAYA PENANGGULANGAN KEMISKINAN BERBASIS PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT LOKAL (Belajar dari Pelaksanaan Program Penanggulangan Kemiskinan Perkotaan di Kelurahan Bintoro, Kecamatan Demak, Kabupaten Demak

Abstract Government makes policy to solve problems affecting people in society. Making policy means deciding what is and is not a problem, choosing which problem to solve, and deciding how to solve them to benefit society. P2KP(Urban Poverty Project) program, one of those programs to solve the poverty problem in urban area. P2KP program implelemented poverty alleviation in urban area based on three pillars of empowerment. Firstly, physical empowerment; secondly, economic empowerment; thirdly, social empowerment. The study found that P2KP program are successfully implemented in physical and social empowerment. It is necessarily have to investigate further research to answer that the program unsuccessfully implemented in economic empowerment. Key-word: Poverty alleviation, urban area, economic and social empowerment A. PENDAHULUA