Perilaku Masyarakat Miskin di Kota Bengkulu dan Model Pengentasan Kemiskinan Berbasis Nilai Sosial-Budaya Lokal

Although Indonesian Government had some programs to overcome poverty, the number of poorfamilies in
Bengkulu remained substantial. The goals of this research were to find out behavior ofpoor community
contributed to persistant poverty, and to formulate an alternative model forpoverty alleviation suitable to
local social-cultural value. The respondents were selected usingpurposive sampling method, covering poor
fishermen, vendors/small micro business, and bluecolar labors/casual workers, in which each group
consists of 20 people either the head ofhousehold or house-wife. The data were collected through
observation and interviews. Qualitativeapproach was used to analyze the data. The finding shows that poor
community in Bengkulu Citytend to behave thrifly (consumptively). They got used to owing to private
money lender as well asneighbour’s kiosk, and prefered to purchase goods in credit/instalment.
Based on the data analysis,this research purposes three kinds of different poverty alleviation model for
community offishermen, vendors, and casual workers.