PERUBAHAN ANGKA KEMISKINAN DI PROVINSI JAWA TIMUR PADA PRA DAN ERA OTONOMI DAERAH

Poverty is one of the social economic problems in regional development that cannot easily be addressed until now. Decentralization policy which provides the authority to local governments in managing their own territory included in the set of policies in order to combat and reduce the number of poor people. This research aims to identify the changes of poverty rate in East Java Province before decentralization and decentralization eras. In addition, this research also aims to determine the pattern of distribution of poverty, as well as the correlation between the changes of Human Development Index (HDI) and the changes of development expenditure with the changes of poverty rate. Types of data used in this research is secondary data with analysis method used is correlation, quantitative descriptive analysis and spatial analysis. This research found that the changes of poverty rate that occurs in majority of district in East Java Province before decentralization and decentralization eras has decreased significantly, and only a small part of East Java Province that the poverty rates has increased. While the distribution of poverty that occur tend to be concentrated in the coastal areas both North and South, as well as on the border of East Java and Central Java. The research also found that the changes of Human Development Index (HDI) and the changes of development expenditure had not a significant correlation with the changes of poverty rate