Poverty is not a simple matter. He is not only related to income. Poverty is associated as well to the lack of fundamental rights to develop and maintain a more dignified life. One of the basic rights of poor people in inherent rights is to have the human value, to be audible voice. Even when defining the "poor", they must be given space to define their poverty with their own perspective and mind.
On the other hand, some of the various poverty reduction programs that have been done in Indonesia, were not exactly targeted, so that often raise conflicts among people, and between communities with the government. Incomplete data and wrong targeting people suspected as some of the causes of these problems. So they who should be the target and get the help do not receive it, and vice versa, they who had not been feasible receive the donation.
Targeting becomes priority for programs of social assistance for poor families. In order to provide better targeting results, it needs to search a better indicator or the effective method to improve the identification of the target households who are feasible for various assistance programs that will be implemented in the future period. This activity is called then the Determination of the Household Welfare Ranking 2008 (P2K08).
This method namely the Determination of the households Welfare Ranking 2008 (P2K08) from the most insecure to the most secure combines participatory approaches and statistical test. District, city and village and village elected in the application of this method are determined randomly.