Social Well-being Research and Policy in Indonesia

The article shows that social well-being research in Indonesia is still relatively new, and ,similar to other countries, such research begins with standard socio-economic indicators and surveys. There are currently two national surveys: first, the family welfare survey, which focuses on objective social well-being; and second, the happiness survey, which concerns subjective and objective individual happiness. In addition, the Indonesian case also shows that Indonesia falls in the lower-middle section of international indices such as the WHI (World Happiness Index) and Gallup index. In regard to social well-being policy, Pancasila as Indonesia's ideology serves as a guidance in the making of the 1945 Constitution, Law, and policies. These sentences are changed. See the revision in the attached matrix. To improve the research into and policies implementing social well-being, researchers must conduct more studies to understand the role of "happiness factors" (social policies and facilities), "happiness actors" (spouse, family, friends, and communities), and "happiness mobility."