Tim Nasional Percepatan Penanggulangan Kemiskinan

Formation

The Legal Basis for the formation of Tim Nasional Percepatan Penanggulangan Kemiskinan (National Team for Acceleration of Poverty Alleviation-TNP2K) is the Presidential Regulation No 15 Year 2010 (Perpres Nomor 15 Tahun 2010) about the acceleration of poverty alleviation. This Presidential Regulation is an improvement over the earlier Presidential Regulation (No 13 Year 2009) about Coordination of poverty alleviation.

Position within the Government of Indonesia

The Tim Nasional Percepatan Penanggulangan Kemiskinan (TNP2K) is placed under, and directly responsible to, the President of Indonesia. The TNP2K is lead by the Vice President of Indonesia.

Duties

Tim Nasional Percepatan Penanggulangan Kemiskinan (TNP2K) has these following duties  :

   1. To create programs and policies of poverty alleviation;
   2. To synergize through the synchronization, harmonization and integration of poverty alleviation programs in Ministries and Institutions;
   3. To exercise control over the supervision and execution of poverty alleviation programs.