TO measure poverty, the BPS utilized the basic-needs approach. With this approach, poverty is viewed as the inability from the economic aspect to fulfill the basic needs of food and non-food necessities measured from the expenditure side. The number of poor people in West Sulawesi province in 2007 was 189,900 people, consisting of 55,100 in the urban area and 134,800 in rural region. Compared to 2006 when the number of poor people was 191,300, th