<![CDATA[Quoting the contents of the first Human Development Report (HDR) in 1990,human development is a process to increase the choices that humans have.Among these many choices, the most important are to live long and healthy, tobe educated, and to have access to the resources needed to live a decent life.Human resource is as a primary capital for development. The HumanDevelopment Index (HDI) measures the achievement of human developmentbased on a number of basic components of quality of life. As a measure of qualityof life, HDI is built through a basic three-dimensional approach. Thesedimensions include longevity and health; knowledge, and a decent life. Thesethree dimensions have a very broad meaning because they are related to manyfactors. To measure the health dimension, life expectancy at birth is used.Furthermore, to measure the knowledge dimension, a combination of literacyrate indicators and average years of schooling is used. As for measuring thedimensions of decent living, indicators of people's purchasing power are usedfor a number of basic needs seen from the average amount of per capitaexpenditure as an income approach that represents development achievementsfor a decent life. Those indicators were as the capital to develop in manydevelopment sectors, including tourism sector. The tourism sector is asreplacement economic resource after tin mining era golden age pass few yearsago. Poverty is a state of inability to meet basic needs such as food, clothing,shelter, education and health. Poverty can be caused by the scarcity of basicnecessities, or the difficulty of accessing education and employment. Poverty isa global problem. Some people understand this term subjectively andcomparatively, while others see it from a moral and evaluative point of view, andstill others understand it from an established scientific point of view, etc]]>
