radicating Poverty in Psychological Dimension: A New Landscape of the Sustainable Development Goal

Abstract

As humans are viewed as simply living a life with no difference from other living things, not as powerful that they can create the future for people of their kind, the advent of the Utopia of progress, therefore, benefits itself from defining the development “sustainable” while leaving hundreds of billions of human behind the curtain. One of the Sustainable Development Goals of the world organization, the United Nations, has set is to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere” when actually it is what appears to be eradicating only the income dimension of poverty, not all. As a result, eradicating poverty in the psychological dimension is proposed as another development option. Hence, this article projects a new landscape of the Sustainable Development Goal using hermeneutics concept in analysing data, presenting result using descriptive writing techniques - expressing a proposal forholistic development based on the positivist social science paradigm that is suggestive and practical in developer’s workshops