This study aims to determine the form of the implementation of legal aid to the people who are in the area and to find out the basic authority of the regional government as an autonomous region in forming regional regulations regarding the implementation of legal aid for the poor. The normative juridical method is carried out through a literature study that examines mainly secondary data in the form of laws and regulations or other legal documents, as well as research results, study results and other references. In seeing the accuracy of the functioning of a statutory regulation. The implementation of legal assistance to the poor in the regions needs to be further optimized, looking at the constitutional basis of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia Article 27 paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia confirms "all citizens have the same position before law and government and are obliged to uphold the law and government without except". Article 28 paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia "Everyone has the right to recognition, guarantees, protection and fair legal certainty and equal treatment before the law". That the reach of access to justice for the poor in the regions is a constitutional right as a citizen, through the formation of regional regulations and other implementing regulations it is very necessary as a form of legal protection so that its implementation can be directed as the embodiment of the principle of equality before the law.