Scientific Journal of Informatics Vol. 5, No. 1, May 2018 p-ISSN 2407-7658 http://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/sji e-ISSN 2460-0040 28 Poverty Data Model as Decision Tools in Planning Policy Development Ahmad Haidar Mirza Faculty of Computer Sciense, Universitas Bina Darma, Indonesia Email: haidarmiza@mail.binadarma.ac.id Abstract Poverty is the main problem in a country both in developing countries to the developed countries, both in structural poverty, cultural and natural. That is, poverty is no longer seen as a measure of the failure of the Government to protect and fulfill the fundamental rights of its citizens but as a challenge of the nation to realize a fair society, prosperous and dignified sovereign. Various efforts have been made in determining government policy measures in an effort to overcome poverty, one of them by conducting a survey to assess the poor. The results of the survey of the various activities of the organization obtained a variety of database versions poverty to areas or locations. The information generated from the poverty database only includes recapitulation of poor people to the area or location. One step is to process the data on poverty in a process of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) to form a data mining poverty. Data mining is a logical combination of knowledge of data, and statistical analysis developed in the knowledge business or a process that uses statistical techniques, mathematics, artificial intelligence, artificial and machine-learning to extract and identify useful information for the relevant knowledge from various large databases. Keywords: Poverty, Data Mining, KDD 1. INTRODUCTION Poverty is a condition of a person who does not have income to meet the basic needs of food, and do not have the basic human ability to support sustainability. Later than the poverty according to UNDP is divided into four kinds, namely income poverty, human poverty, poverty and the basic needs poverty ability [1]. Poverty is the main problem in developing countries well in a Contracting State to the growing country, both structural poverty, cultural and natural. In developing countries poverty is the main job for government that must be addressed and should be resolved. That is, poverty is no longer seen as a measure of the failure of the Government to protect and fulfill the fundamental rights of its citizens but as a challenge of a nation to realize a fair society, prosperous and dignified sovereign. Poverty has a negative impact which is spread (multiplier effects) against the social order as a whole. Various events of the conflict in the country that occur throughout the economic crisis, for example, reveals that the problem of poverty is not merely affect the economic resilience shown by the low purchasing power, but also affects the social resilience of communities and national defense. Many studies shows that poverty is also the estuary of other social problems. The problem of street children, acts of torture against children (child abuse), domestic violence, rundown houses, crime, alcoholism, ignorance, and unemployment is a result of poverty.