Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Perspective in Regional Development Planning and Implementation

Abstract

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address the most pressing global development issues and many countries, including Indonesia, integrate the goals into their national and local development. This study uses a qualitative approach in exploring the integration of SDGs into regional development planning and implementation in Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia. This study reveals there is an integration of SDGs into Bandung Regency's 2016-2021 regional planning. The local government has the autonomy to implement 16 out of 17 goals, except SDG 14 (Life below Water), which remains under the central government’s authority. Bandung Regency planned to implement 220 indicators in its 2016-2021 regional development planning, in which 140 of them (69%) has been achieved by 2019. The greatest achievement by Bandung Regency is SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and SDG 13 (Climate Change), while the opposite side is SDG 4 (Quality Education) which still falls behind. The study then explores the challenges in integrating and implementing SDGs in local development, including poor cross-sectoral coordination, the lack of knowledge about doing SDGs, and confounding local indicators and data collection. Keywords— sustainable development goals, regional planning, development implementation, local development