DAMPAK BANTUAN TUNAI BERSYARAT PADA TINGKAT KEHADIRAN SISWA DI SEKOLAH Studi: Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH) di DKI Jakarta, 2012

Poverty is a worldwide phenomenon that has a lot of dimensions, lack of education can also be seen as a cause of poverty. Education factors causing someone could not get out of poverty chain, he could not get a decent job with enough income. Poverty reduction became the main target of government policy in some developing countries. To meet this, the Indonesian government created programs that pro-poor, its name is Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH). This program appertain to the type of conditional cash transfers, PKH is planned to run until 2015, and is targeting to touch 6.5 million poor households. This study focused on the impact of PKH on poverty through its educational interventions. Logistic regression showed that children who come from families receiving PKH has a tendency 9 times more likely to attend school than children who come from families not receiving PKH. This program should be continued or extended even more, it proven to provide positive results on the level of school attendance. This is expected to encourage the achievement of a decent level of education for children who come from PKH beneficiaries