Indonesian Challenge in Implementing Rural SDGs Program

Case Study Structural Poverty in Tangga Barito Villages, Boalemo Regency

Abstract

Economic and infrastructure development that focuses on developing urban areas also increases poverty disparity between urban and rural areas. As a result, most rural communities live in poverty due to limited access to primarily infrastructure services. Among 17 sustainable development goals, no poverty is the first target globally because this has a crucial position in realizing other targets such as education equality. Decentralization has implications for the authority of local governments in formulating policies to improve people's welfare based on Law 23 of 2014. However, the development gap among Java and other islands in Indonesia causes poverty, such as the Boalemo Regency, one of the poorest regents in Gorontalo Province. This study applies the qualitative method to investigate the empirical challenges of the Indonesian Poverty Alleviation Policy implemented in the Priority Program of the Village Fund. After analyzing empirical data from 80 questionaries and public documents, structural poverty in Tangga Barito related to the development gap of public infrastructure. Meanwhile, realizing rural SDGs face some challenges culturally and structurally, such as gender inequality and limited human resources both externally from the community and internally from a village government organization.