Poverty Alleviation Program in Central Java

As a form of UNDIP’s commitment to supporting poverty alleviation, UNDIP continues to develop various innovative programs aimed at improving community welfare.

  • One of the real programs is the application of agricultural technology with plasma technology and empowerment of farming communities in Central Java.
  • Undip is currently conducting direct monitoring of the poverty alleviation program in Demak, which aims to help victims of the tidal flood disaster.
  • In Blora Regency, Undip also helps the Regency Government to handle stunting to poverty. Including handling irrigation, education, to developing livestock and millennial farmers through KKN activities, fostered villages, and others.
  • Through the Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM), Undip collaborates with the Jepara Regency Government in the context of developing desalination units for drought-prone areas, developing community ponds in order to overcome poverty among fishermen, and processing fishery products. The desalination unit in Teluk Awur Jepara for drinking water production with a capacity of 200,000 liters per day which is operated with solar energy and is the result of research collaboration with the Australian National University (ANU). This facility is a pilot project to be applied to other coastal areas of Central Java that have clean water crisis problems.
  • The KKN program in the same place for the next 5 years in Rembang Regency, with the aim of assisting the Rembang Regency government, especially in poverty alleviation and making areas in the red zone better.

Sustainable Development Goals

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