Abstract :
Poverty is a state of inability to meet basic needs, such as food, clothing
and shelter. As one of the government?s efforts to overcome the poverty is holding
a program that provide subsidized rice for poor families. In this case, Pengkok
Village is one of the villages included in the program receiving assistance from the
government, the current data collection of prospective beneficiaries in Pengkok
Village is still carried out by using computerized Excel, besides, the program for
providing subsidy in Pengkok Village is limited to the number of quota or the
number of beneficiaries, it is due to the large number of population, the village had
difficulties in distributing the subsidy, the village felt that almost all of the
population had the right to receive the subsidy. In order for the distribution of
subsidy meet the right target, there is a need of system that can decide who are the
citizens rightful to receive the subsidy. Therefore, this research aims to create
decision support system to the prospective beneficiaries of subsidy in Pengkok
Village by applying Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method. The flow of making
the system includes planning, data collection, system design, system
implementation and testing. The system was tested by using 2 tests, such as manual
calculation test and the suitability test result. In the manual calculation test, the test
is carried out by using the SAW method equation, meanwhile in the suitability test
result is carried out by comparing the data that appears on the system with manual
calculation data, in the suitability test result, the system obtained 100% suitability
percentage.