%A ZAINAL ABIDIN %J Aplikasia %T OPTIMALISASI UPAYA PENGENTASAN KEMISKINAN MELALUI PROGRAM KULIAH KERJA NYATA (KKN) %X Coping the problem of poverty, especially for poor people in destitute countries, is not an easy task. Studies of it are truly developing very fast now, for in the 90-s, poverty, destitute areas and the ways to tackle the problem became most people's focus of attention. But it does not mean that the effort has reached its desired goals successfully. This paper will present a few results of empirical studies by the KKN program (Field-work Exercise) held by IAIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta in the target areas: destitute villages as well as poor peripheral areas, in all districts of Yogyakarta Special Province %N 2 %K kkn, kuliah kerja nyata %P 193-224 %V III %D 2002 %L digilib8180