Pengetahuan Kemiskinan Dalam Kalangan Masyarakat Melayu Di Mukim Sri Medan, Batu Pahat, Johor
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Date
2018-08
Authors
Aini Khairiah Samani
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Poverty Knowledge is an approach that is used to understand the root causes
of poverty, much precisely from the perspective of the poor, which stands for those
with lack of education, lack of income and lack of property ownership. Unknowingly,
the poor have created a culture of poverty in response to their poverty. Culture of
poverty is a state of a lifestyle correlated with negative attitudes such as laziness,
lack of motivation, lack of confidence, easy to give up and surrender to fate, which
causes a person or community to keep on living in poverty. The Malay community is
associated with those who have negative attitudes, which lead to poverty. In
Malaysia, the Malay had the highest percentage of poverty than other races. From
1970 to date, the percentage of poverty among the Malay had stated 0.8 percent
compared to the Chinese and Indian, respectively 0.1 percent and 0.6 percent.
Shiftless or laziness is the attitude that considered as the cause of the Malay living in
poverty. The objectives of this study are i) to explore the causes of poverty in the
Malay community in Mukim Sri Medan, ii) to determine the opportunities available
around Mukim Sri Medan which could be benefited by the poor and iii) to analyze
the main factor that creates poverty from their perspectives. A questionnaire survey
was conducted on 313 poor Malay head of households, which were obtained through
Mukim Sri Medan’s e-Kasih system. From this, 30 respondents were selected for the
in-depth interview session. Information that was collected using questionnaire were
analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to obtained data in the form of frequencies, mean and mean score. Factor analysis was conducted on 62
factors of poverty to identify the main factor that creates a culture of poverty in
Mukim Sri Medan. This study found that there are three main factors that create a
culture of poverty in Mukim Sri Medan, which are, i) Progress Factor ii) Attitude
Factor and iii) Aid Factor. Mean score value showed that the dominant factors that
cause them to live in poverty were Attitude Factor, which was 3.17. However,
qualitative analysis indicated that Inability factor, such as lack of education, lack of
healthcare and lack of property ownership were the main causes that keep the
respondents to live in poverty. This study provides understanding of poverty that
highlights Inability as the key factor for poverty incidence in Mukim Sri Medan.
This study contributes to the understanding of the culture of poverty and therefore
the effective strategies can be suggested to eradicate poverty
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Geography