Abstract:
Sustainable development has been the focus of the United Nations for the past two decades as highlighted in Rio Summit, Millennium Summit, and the latest at the Sustainable Development Summit in 2015 that led to the adoption of global goals known as the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite its nature that contributes to the characteristics of soft law, the SDGs as comprised within the Agenda 2030, still has its degree of influence that affect state’s compliance to achieve the goals. The debate on whether state’s compliance would be heavily affected by state’s interest as argued by the rationalists or the normativity of the law would push state’s willingness to comply as presented by the constructivists strengthened Koh’s approach to state’s compliance where he took these two strands and extend it with domestic level of compliance into the framework of transnational legal process. This framework posits that state’s compliance can be observed through the dynamic of interaction and interpretation on international level and internalization on domestic level. This dynamic can be observed from Indonesian government’s effort under President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo’s presidency to achieve the fulfillment of SDG 10.1, to which Indonesia has expressed commitment through the interaction, interpretation, and internalization process that ultimately leads to the positive progress on achieving the goal as observed through its achievement in reducing poverty rate and inequality between 2016-2018.
