Improving welfare through poverty alleviation and unemployment reduction is the main development priority.
Rural PNPM Mandiri is a core part of PNPM Mandiri intended to empower rural communities. This program is developed from the Kecamatan Development Program (KDP) launched in 1998.Community Block Grants (BLM) allocated to kecamatans ranges from IDR 1.5-3 billion, depending on the number of backward villages or ratio of the poor to the population in the kecamatan.