Recognition of Prior Learning Village to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals; Policy Analysis in Indonesia

Abstract

Objective:  The successful development of a nation begins with community empowerment and village development. Many policies have been issued to develop villages, especially Law number 6 of 2014 concerning villages.   Theoretical Framework:  However, implementation in the field still has many obstacles, this is due to the low quality of human resources in the village.   Methods: To overcome this problem, the village ministry-PDTT has issued a village past learning recognition (RPL) policy to support village Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, there are many problems that occur. Thus, it is very urgent to have an in-depth study regarding village RPL policies at macro, meso and micro levels. The aim of this research is to analyze Village RPL policies in realizing SDGs through a policy triangle analysis approach.   Result: It shows that (1) the Village RPL policy was born due to the problem of low human resources and many villages with very underdeveloped status on the village development index (2) the process of formulating the policy was carried out using a participatory approach involving various stakeholders; central government, regional government, universities, and village officials and activists.   Conclusion: This research was only carried out in analyzing the formulation of the agenda setting and RPL policy formulation, there was no field implementation analysis and evaluation of the impact of Village RPL policies.