Equity in Development

Equity is the crucial issue in economic development. As we know, development not only regards growth, but also equity, diversification of production, and reducing poverty rate. The development policy impute between welfare and growth. Growth without development means that there is no equity. Actually, growth has been followed by equity. All of people that are live in the country have to enjoy the benefit of development policy.

There is big equity problem in Indonesia. Many people still live in beneath poverty line, which is approximately 32, 5 million people. However, this data reveals that the income per capita of Indonesia is approximately IDR 30 million per year. As we know, people are categorized poor if their expenditure below IDR 250 thousand per month. What data tell us? Yeah, it tells us about the inequity in income in Indonesia. The more welfare is enjoyed only by less people.

The efficacy of economic policy from government tends to ineffective. The unevenness still happens, and unfortunately the problem is still wide. I think the government has to recognize this problem, thus undertake the pace to resolve it. If this problem can’t be resolved as soon as possible, it will create the adverse effect in our social and economic live.

I just want to underscore that the main problem in our country is unevenness between poor and rich people. In many cases, the poverty is not fate. In the inception, people can’t receive opportunity to work because they don’t have ability and capacity. This happen because they don’t have chance to study in formal and informal school. So, it is corollary if they poor. This is a modest explanation why some people poor. The government has to create opportunity, especially for poor people in undertaking study in formal or informal school. This is a solution to decrease unevenness in our country. []