Analisis Kemiskinan Kepala Rumah Tangga Perempuan di Provinsi Maluku Tahun 2022 = An Analysis of Poverty of Female-Headed Households in Maluku Province in 2022

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to end poverty in all its forms everywhere and provide a gender-sensitive policy framework. The percentage of poor households headed by women in Maluku in 2022 is 7.03 percent, an increase of 0.83 percentage points from 2021. The researcher used a mixed research method to achieve the objectives, with a logistic regression data analysis method on a sample of 882 female-headed households obtained from the March 2022 Susenas. In-depth interviews were conducted with five informants to strengthen the analysis results. The results with a logistic regression data analysis showed that individual factors included in the dimensions of Chambers' poverty trap, namely the alienation/isolation dimension (type of residence area and level of education), the vulnerability dimension (number of household members), the powerless dimension (access to social protection guarantees) had a significant effect on the poverty status of household heads in Maluku Province in 2022. This research highlights that the primary indicator that must be improved is the number of household members. It is the primary determinant that influences the poverty of female-headed households in Maluku. Then further found through in-depth interviews that female-headed households experience gender injustice in surviving and meeting the needs of their families, such as marginalization, subordination, stereotypes, violence, and double burden.

Keywords : poverty, female-headed households, poverty trap