44. The Poor in Democratic Society A Pitfall in Social Poverty Aid Program

DOI

10.2991/icosaps-18.2018.44How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Active citizen, poverty, paradox, social accountability, democratic.

Abstract

The topic this paper is to question the paradox of active citizen representative’s role in poverty coping policy process. This case study was conducted in one Indonesian city often becoming the location of fund distribution from international donor institution to reinforce civil society’s role. The problems are: does active citizen actually contribute to the reinforcement of people capacity as the balancing power for government? Or instead does active citizen reinforce the patron-client relation, thereby becoming active clientelism? This article aims to address the paradox of active citizen from social accountability theory perspectives. The method employed is case study with an interpretative discourse analysis and interpretative phenomenon analysis. Interpretive inquiry is used to identify accountability pathology, i.e. the symptoms of comprehension biases towards targeted group and its implications on the public accountability substances. This research found the emergence of elitist pathology risk and information commodification in determining targeted group data. This research contributed prepositional finding of pathology pitfall in which poverty alleviation program instead of perpetuated poverty. This research recommended the publication of poverty indicators transparently to determine the targeted group and the utilization of it in integrated manner between Local Government Agencies as the determinant of poverty alleviation program. Further research was recommended to study the effect of poverty coping program acceptance on the group based on the relationship of targeted group and political actors and apparatuses.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rutiana Wahyunengseh
AU  - Sri Hastjarjo
AU  - Didik Suharto
AU  - Mahardhika M.A. Pamungkas
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - 44. The Poor in Democratic Society A Pitfall in Social Poverty Aid Program
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (IcoSaPS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 218
EP  - 223
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosaps-18.2018.44
DO  - 10.2991/icosaps-18.2018.44
ID  - Wahyunengseh2018/08
ER  -