Bringing Indonesia into the global welfare regime debate: A literature review and future research agenda

Yuda, Tauchid Komara; Kühner, Stefan

doi:10.1111/aswp.12275

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“…Additionally, it is notable that individuals in poverty often experience high levels of life satisfaction within the Global South territory (Recent empirical evidence is provided by Sulkers and Loos (2022). This evidence reinforces Veenhoven's (2005) theory that individuals can experience happiness and contribute to others even in challenging and unpredictable circumstances, which frequently characterise Global South welfare regimes (Yuda and K€ uhner, 2023). This disparity underscores the opportunity to revisit the fundamental question of what constitutes well-being within the context of the Global South.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 65%

“…Since Esping-Andersen (1990) introduced the conceptual framework for welfare state regimes in Western countries, scholars have proposed different welfare models or approaches to conceptualise other welfare arrangements worldwide. In the Global South context, scholars have also adopted business models to conceptualise regional social policy arrangements (Yuda and K€ uhner, 2023). These models highlight the importance of the community and its social responsibilities in the management of well-being within this region.…”

Section: State-market-community Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Re-understanding well-being in the Global South: a literature review and conceptual synthesis

Pinem,

Yuda,

Chen

2023

IJSSP

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PurposeThe significance of well-being in social development policy and practice is increasingly acknowledged by scholars and practitioners worldwide. Nevertheless, when examining well-being within the context of Global South trends, existing conceptualisations seem to yield incongruent indicators. Given the background, this paper aims to synthesise theoretical and empirical literature on well-being to foster an understanding of well-being in contemporary Global South.Design/methodology/approachThis article reviews the now large literature on the well-being in the Global South. The article begins with a discussion of the contributions of state-of-the-art developments in well-being studies, a realm experiencing remarkable growth in social policy studies. It then turns to the prominent well-being constructs that have garnered considerable attention within the literature, with an examination of the Global North and Global South context followed by reinterpretation of these concepts to facilitate a comprehensive study of well-being beyond the realms of welfare states. Concluding the narrative, a succinct outline of potential pathways for future research is presented in the final section.FindingsThe review reveals that the concept of well-being in the Global South does not necessarily deviate entirely from the prevailing belief that the region is fundamentally distinct from the Global North on a conceptual level. The authors have discovered that three core dimensions of well-being, namely objective, subjective and relational, are observable across societal boundaries due to the diffusion of knowledge and social and cultural practices that have progressively aligned them with Global North-style modernisation. An exception arises in the relational aspect, where the attainment of positive collective relationships precedes individual happiness to some extent. The paper advances a renewed perspective on well-being, portraying it as a situational, interconnected, collective undertaking and continuous process. These approaches empower the researchers to address the overarching question of which analytical foundations can most effectively uncover the intricacies of well-being in diverse and contemporary circumstances.Originality/valueThis paper helps the researchers to address the overarching question of which analytical foundations can most effectively uncover the intricacies of well-being in diverse and contemporary circumstances, thereby facilitating future enhancements in social policy design.

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Re-understanding well-being in the Global South: a literature review and conceptual synthesis

Pinem,

Yuda,

Chen

2023

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“…These changes include economic growth and the expanding division of labour (Cruz-Martínez, 2017; Öktem, 2020). This argument may be relevant during the New Order period, with the introduction of various kinds of social security programmes such as Asuransi Sosial Angkatan Bersenjata, Insurance for Indonesian Armed Forces (ASABRI), Tabungan Asuransi Pegawai Negeri, Insurance Savings for Civil Servants (TASPEN), Jaminan Sosial Tenaga Kerja, Social Insurance for Private Sector Workers (JAMSOSTEK) and Badan Penyelenggara Dana Pemeliharaan Kesehatan, Health Care Fund Administering Agency (BPDPK), whose transformation into Asuransi Kesehatan, Health Insurance (ASKES) in 1992 occurred amid high economic growth (Yuda & Kühner, 2022).…”

Section: Institutionalisation Of National Social Security In Indonesiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars studying the region trace the origins of welfare system reforms in the Global South back to the decade following the 1998 economic crisis, when a number of new institutions and policies expanded the role of government in a minimal welfare provision in multiple directions (cf. Yuda & Kühner, 2022; Koehler et al, 2021, for an overview). Moreover, as existing literature shows, welfare reform initiatives have presented significant societal obstacles in developing nations (Cruz-Martínez, 2017; Lavers & Hickey, 2016; Öktem, 2020), given that welfare state institutions were originally established for starkly dissimilar economic and social frameworks (Wood, 2015).…”

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Risk Rationalities in Welfare State Policy and Practice in Indonesia: A Phenomenological Study of National Health Insurance in a Rural Community

Majid,

Susetiawan,

Nurhadi

et al. 2024

The International Journal of Community and Social Development

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The body of research examining the welfare systems of the Global South has expanded, yet there remains a lack of knowledge regarding the implications of modernising the welfare system in rural agrarian societies. A research gap in this area led us to conduct a live-in observation and 17 interviews with peasants in Merjosuro village—a rural area in Central Java, Indonesia—to examine how farmers’ rationality affects the perception of social risks and the decision-making process regarding health risks management. The study has two key findings. The first finding reveals that differences in the rationality of risk between policymakers and the Merjosuro community are the reason why the community does not participate in the National Health Insurance (JKN). The second finding indicates that the monthly contributory system promoted by JKN is incompatible with the livelihoods in an agrarian society characterised by unstable and irregular income depending on harvest time. Overall, the case in Merjosuro highlights the understudied phenomena of expanding modern-formal social policies within more traditional community-based informal welfare arrangements, which were found to have limited the pace of transformation of the welfare state expansion in the examined case. Additionally, the study has practical implications for rethinking contextualised designs of welfare state policies and practices for the Global South.

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“…Focusing specifically on the Indonesian case, this paper aims to contribute to the growing body of research on welfare stereotypes and stigma (Dukelow et al, 2022). To our knowledge, this topic has not yet been explored in relation to conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, particularly in Southeast Asia as emerging welfare capitalism (Sumarto, 2020a; Yuda, 2023; Yuda et al, 2022; Yuda & Kühner, 2022). Accordingly, our paper outlines its objectives, which include examining the effects of CCT on impoverished families, exploring their attitudes towards these programs in response to stereotyping, and considering the implications of such stereotypes for the claim motivation of claimants.…”

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Moving beyond stereotype: A qualitative study of long‐standing recipients of the Indonesian conditional cash transfers (CCT/PKH)

Habibullah¹,

Yuda

Setiawan³

et al. 2023

Soc Policy Adm

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This qualitative study explores the experiences and attitudes of welfare recipients towards Indonesia's conditional cash transfer (CCT/PKH) program. The specific objectives of our paper include examining the program's impact on impoverished families, their response to stereotyping, and the implications of stereotyping for government policy among Indonesian low‐income families. We conducted twenty in‐depth interviews with key stakeholders (program professionals, community leaders, program facilitators) and end‐users (beneficiaries). Despite the attached stereotype, our findings show that not all beneficiaries with improved socioeconomic conditions wish to leave the program. In many cases, this occurs as beneficiaries use their CCT/PKH accounts as collateral to borrow from unregulated lenders and repay their debts. A few instances where we found self‐voluntary withdrawal from the program were only caused by the shame of receiving stickers attached to their homes – not because of their social‐economic status improvement – leading to difficulty affording their necessities afterwards. Overall, the finding that individuals, whether eligible or not, are not ashamed to claim PKH, despite the stigma attached to the program, contrasts with studies on welfare stigma, claiming that stigma can prevent individuals from claiming their welfare rights.

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Bringing Indonesia into the global welfare regime debate: A literature review and future research agenda

Cited by 8 publications

References 96 publications

Re-understanding well-being in the Global South: a literature review and conceptual synthesis

Re-understanding well-being in the Global South: a literature review and conceptual synthesis

Risk Rationalities in Welfare State Policy and Practice in Indonesia: A Phenomenological Study of National Health Insurance in a Rural Community

Moving beyond stereotype: A qualitative study of long‐standing recipients of the Indonesian conditional cash transfers (CCT/PKH)

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