Imbalanced Development And Social Exclusion of Urban Poor Group in Indonesia: Study of Urban Poor Group at Slum Area in Jakarta

Abstract

This article provides a description about the life of urban poor group in slum area which appears due to an imbalance development and social exclusion process which occurs in a poor group. This study is conducted by using qualitative method with data collecting technique in-depth interview and observation in a poor group in one of slum area in South Jakarta. The result of this study shown that social exclusion occurs in an urban poor group in Jakarta as an urban representation of developing countries in South East Asia. They have less access in various fields, such as economic, education, health, and also politics. The social exclusion which happened in a poor group cause they could not exit from the shackles of structural poverty which even more impoverish them. The analysis of this article shown that critic of dependency theory on development based on modernization which assessed to produce a bigger imbalance seen relevant in an urban scope of developing country such as Indonesia. Therefore it is seen that the imbalance is not only in the level between countries, but also in groups in a country.

Keywords: social exclusion, poverty, unbalanced development, and migration