The National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) tasked SurveyMETER with conducting an evaluation research on the efficacy of the RASKIN program's distribution and creating several reform alternatives for the program. A mixed-methods strategy, combining quantitative and qualitative techniques, was used to conduct the study.

This study aims to: 1) ascertain the goals, composition, and framework of the RASKIN program; 2) assess the Raskin distribution mechanism from BULOG to RASKIN recipients; and 3) assess the efficacy of the targeting and distribution strategies employed to reach RASKIN recipients.

To perform the quantitative analysis, respondents from the Raskin program at the community level as well as families with and without poverty were interviewed. In the meantime, a qualitative study was conducted through in-depth interviews with informants from BULOG officers, officers in charge of RASKIN, such as KESRA, TPKAD, or BAPEDA's social division at the district level, RASKIN distribution points at the sub-district level, and interviews with village heads, community leaders, and beneficiaries, particularly marginalized groups like low-income elderly households, female-headed families, and households with disabled members. A literature review was also conducted in addition to the aforementioned tasks to examine policy documents, implementation guidelines, details regarding the Raskin program's implementation, and studies that had been conducted to assess the program.

Ten Indonesian provinces—North Sumatra, Riau, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, NTT, South Kalimantan, South Sulawesi, and Papua—were the sites of the study. Only one district, comprising both urban and rural areas, and one sub-district and two villages were picked from each province. One local environmental unit (SLS) with a maximum of 150 houses was chosen from among the chosen villages, and it contained the greatest proportion of impoverished households. Twenty-five poor families (RTM) and twenty-five non-poor households were drawn at random from each SLS (enumeration area). Subsequently, the head of the household and the head of the household's spouse were interviewed in each of the chosen households. Village heads, community/religious/traditional leaders, PKK, implementers of Raskin distribution in villages (Pokja/Pokmas/Village Warung), elderly households, and female/disabled heads of families were the target respondents for the community survey. Consequently, fifty families, one hundred individual respondents, and five community respondents were interviewed in each enumeration area.

Field data collection was carried out on 15 - 28 August 2011. (JF)