Make A Little Space To Make A Better Place...

Heal the World
By Michael Jackson.

There's A Place In Your Heart And I Know That It Is Love and this place could be Much Brighter Than Tomorrow And If You Really Try You'll Find There's No Need To CryIn This Place You'll FeelThat There's No Hurt Or SorrowThere Are Ways To Get There If You Care EnoughFor The LivingMake A Little SpaceMake A Better Place...

Heal The WorldMake It A Better Place For You And For Me And The Entire Human Race There Are People Dying If You Care Enough For The Living Make A Better PlaceFor You And For MeIf You Want To Know Why There's A Love That Cannot Lie Love Is Strong It Only Cares ForJoyful Giving If We TryWe Shall See In This Bliss We Cannot Feel Fear Or Dread We Stop Existing And Start Living Then It Feels That Always Love's Enough For Us Growing So Make A Better World Make A Better World...Heal The World Make It A Better Place

For You And For Me And The Entire Human Race There Are People Dying If You Care EnoughFor The Living Make A Better PlaceFor You And For Me And The Dream We Were Conceived In Will Reveal A Joyful Face And The World WeOnce Believed InWill Shine Again In GraceThen Why Do We KeepStrangling LifeWound This Earth Crucify Its Soul Though It's Plain To SeeThis World Is Heavenly Be God's Glow We Could Fly So High

Let Our Spirits Never Die In My Heart I Feel You Are All My Brothers Create A World With No FearTogether We'll Cry Happy Tears See The Nations Turn Their Swords Into Plow shares We Could Really Get ThereIf You Cared EnoughFor The Living Make A Little Space To Make A Better Place...Heal The WorldMake It A Better Place For You And For Me And The Entire Human Race There Are People DyingIf You Care Enough For The Living Make A Better PlaceFor You And For Me

Heal The WorldMake It A Better PlaceFor You And For MeAnd The Entire Human RaceThere Are People DyingIf You Care Enough For The LivingMake A Better Place For You And For Me

Heal The World Make It A Better Place For You And For MeAnd The Entire Human RaceThere Are People DyingIf You Care Enough For The Living Make A Better Place For You And For MeThere Are People DyingIf You Care EnoughFor The LivingMake A Better Place For You And For Me There Are People Dying If You Care Enough For The LivingMake A Better Place For You And For Me You And For Me

Make it a better place You And For Me....

Programs by Government

What has Government do to the Poor?
Poverty problem isn’t happened only at Indonesia. All the worlds in this planet have the same problem. So United Nations try to solve this problem. It can be seen at millennium development goals (MDGs), first goal is reduce extreme poverty and next giving education to the poor to break the chain of poverty. What has Indonesian government do to solve this problem? There are many programs to decrease the poverty trends.
PPK (Program pengembangan kecamatan) is part of government project to reduce the increase number of poverty in rural based. This project is coordinated by regional/ local government (Pemerintah Kabupaten).
P2KP (Program penanggulangan kemiskinan di perkotaan) is part of government project to the poor at city based.
BOS (biaya operasional pendidikan) by education departments (DIKNAS). By this program hopefully, government can decline poverty problem all over Indonesia region, especially undeveloped/marginal region.

Indonesian government has done many efforts to solve this problem, but why it can be cover or reduce the increase number of the poor? Corruption may the best answer. If there are corrupt in this country we never break poverty problems. All government does like “trickle down effects” not finish breaking this circle. In general, the intended goals of these programs have not been successfully achieved. There were a number of reasons to explain these failures, but in particular the implementation mechanisms and approaches used in these programs tended to be top down, while the programs themselves tended to be uniform across the country without paying adequate attention to local socio-economic characteristics or cultural differences. (By sari)

STREET KIDS IN SURABAYA

STREET KIDS IN SURABAYA

I want to share what I've got after visiting 3 NGOs working for Street Kid, which maybe useful to you as individual part of our beloved city and also to be shared to our students so they are aware of what is happening around them.

The term’ Street Kid' is not appropriate anymore now according to the agreement between government and NGOs. Instead they are now called as "kid of the country". Yes they are part of our ‘big family ‘. Some claim that it is part of government responsibility to handle the problem but since it is very "complicated" problem, I believe government needs support from others. In Surabaya alone there are about 14 Organizations focusing on the program to improve the live of the poor family or even stop them from going to the street. Yet they still can not solve the problem. One organization claim to have 600 kids under their care, two others claim to have about 200 -250 kids under their care. Apart from what they have done, the number of kids is growing every year. How could this happen?

From the interview with the NGOs, they classify these kids into three categories; kids who spend their whole 24 hours on the street, kids who spend their afternoon and evening on the street, and kids who shows potentials to go to the street.

The initial core problem lies to the economical condition of parents which drive them to send their children to the street to beg or sell newspaper or food hoping that kids can get their own pocket money. Some parents even can not send their children to school because they do not have money. Ironically, those families tend to have more than 2 children. When I ask why this happened, they said honestly that they do not have such an entertainment or things to do in the evening. They do not have the luxury of spending their evening shopping to the malls, reading books or even to watch TV! What else could they do?

The Organizations have approached this from different targets. With parents, some NGO give 0% interest to parents wishing to run their own small business (micro financing). The assumption is if parents can improve their live better, they can send their kid to school and take care of their children better. With kids, NGO runs programs such giving understanding to the kids that being on the street is not good for them for any reasons; there is also a study program where staff come regularly to the certain place where kids can gather and spend their evening studying, reviewing lessons and teaching them basic skills.

Now the problem develop into kids enjoy being on the street. They feel that they have many friends supporting them and of course they can get more money!
The problem is like a circle of Satan. How could we best help these people ?

The others side of development

This is one examples of Indonesian slum area. It is one of the other effects of development in Indonesia. Their condition is very poor of facilities, but still survive. Where did they come from? Do they come from rural area? in social studies we called urbanization.
One of the city problems in Indonesia is too much population cause by urbanization.
In slum area, they are lack of food, no electricity, may be crime…
We can help them if we want….come to them….not just charity but give them a better education for their children. From small things big things grow.

imagine if you have no place to shelter.....

Imagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one ( taken from"Imagine" by John Lennon)

Poverty Theory

Poverty theory in social studies

Since 1940s poverty was been interest to study by sociologist. After great depression in the world the case of poverty has been research. According to Jordan (1966) there are two mains of poverty theory.

Culture of poverty
This theory developed by Oscar Lewis, an anthropologist in 1959. Lewis developed his theory form his experience of Mexico.The culture of poverty is a specific syndrome that grows up in some situations. It requires an economic setting of cash economy, a high rate of unemployment and under employment, low wages and people with low skills. In the absence of voluntary or state support and stable family, the low-income population tends to develop the culture of poverty against the dominant ideology of accumulation of the middle class. The poor realize that they have a marginal position within a highly stratified and individualistic capitalistic society, which does not offer them any prospect for upward mobility.In order to survive the poor have to develop their own institutions and agencies because the larger society tends to ignore and bypass them

Structural theory of poverty
Structural theories of poverty hold that poverty is caused by the structure of the larger socioonomicorder. It is the macro structure of society that produces inequality and consequently poverty. The structure of global capitalism, for example, gives rise to inequality and large-scale poverty all over the world.Marxism of different varieties has remained a major theoretical perspective for understanding poverty. Dependency theory, which emerged in Latin America, has been particularly concerned with third world poverty. Theory of marginalization again of Latin American vintage has a rich tradition of exploring the fate of human deprivation and marginality. Another key phrase that has become immensely popular in recent years is social exclusion (Friedman, 1996).The term social exclusion was coined in France by Rene Lenoir in 1974(Gore, 1995; Silver, 1995; Haan, 1998). But it is to be pointed out that Georg Simmel (1858-1918), a German sociologist outlined a sociological perspective on social exclusion and inclusion as early as 1908 that may even be superior to current discourse on social exclusion. “This perspective is still topical, and it can be argued that in some respects Simmel's analysis is superior to later treatments of such processes”(Hvinden,). In Renoir’s view exclusion referred to people who were excluded from employment-based social security system. It became a popular term in France in 1980s to express new forms of poverty associated with technological change and economic restructuring--unemployment, ghettoisation, disruptions of family.

( By Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology. Vol. 2. No. 1. January 2005. 4)

some thing about poverty

Some thing about poverty

And let the music flow Like Light into the Rainbow We know the Dance, we have We still have the chance To break these chains and flow Like Light into the Rainbow. (taken from “Antonio’s Song” by Michael Franks)

Poverty is a part of human being problem like a ghost followed our daily life. What is poverty means? It can mean the condition of having little money and few material possessions. In international and community development literature however, poverty has the additional meaning of deprivation of basic needs. While some seek to define poverty in economic terms, others consider social and political arrangements to be intrinsic to poverty. Debate on the causes, effects and measurement of poverty directly influences the design and implementation of poverty reduction programs and is thus important to the fields of international development and public administration.( by wikipedia.com). Economic aspects of poverty may include material need, typically including the necessities of daily living (food, clothing, shelter, and health care). Poverty in this sense may be understood as a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, and or lacks the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. These essentials may be material resources such as food, safe drinking water, and shelter. Poverty also describes a (persistent) lack of wealth and income, or wealth and income disparities.
Social aspects of poverty link conditions of scarcity to aspects of the distribution of resources and power in a society. These aspects of poverty may include access to information, education, health care, social status, political power,[1] and the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with other people in society.[2] Poverty may also be understood by those who experience it as an aspect of social relationships and need, including social exclusion [3], dependency [4], and diminished capacity to participate in society, [5] including as a result of being deprived of access to education and information.( by wikipedia.com)