Kebijakan Perlindungan Sosial di Indonesia: Analisis Perbandingan Perlindungan Sosial di Masa Pandemi Covid-19 dan Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Abstract

This research describes the realization of social protection in Indonesia during the Covid-19 pandemic and how Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a new offer to social aid can accelerate weakness of the policy. The policy of social protection in Indonesia is currently considered inadequate so the Universal Basic Income as the most sophisticated development, in terms of social welfare distribution, has been taken into account. The Universal Basic income is considered to be effective innovation to accelerate the resident capacity in improving the social mobility, reducing inequalities, and providing security. By providing basic income security, it will not only provide financial security to every resident in fulfilling their living needs,but also give access and opportunity to develop their capacity both soft skills and hard skills. With such offer,UBI requires the involvement of many disciplinary. Therefore, this public policy study is important to stimulate further research from other branches of discipline.This trajectory will test and implement the Universal Basic Income more precisely which will be realized in the future. This research employs literature study and qualitative data analysis technique. In addition, this research is complemented by displaying and describing the realization of social protection policy in Indonesia during the pandemic and how the Universal Basic Income corrects and accelarectes is weakness