Abstract:
Through international consensus, United Nations (UN) and its member
countries in year 2000 at the Millennium Summit created a way to end poverty and
set a time bound until 2015-the time where there are no more words of "extreme
poverty" existed. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is the agreed consensus
by 189 member countries which the main goal is to end poverty by 2015. The main
idea was resulted into 8 goals that hopefully will be achieved at the agreed
deadline. In order to reach the target, state and non-state actors are involved. One
of non-state actor which is entangled is Multinational Companies (MNCs).
The roles that multinational companies can be played to help the
government achieving the target are through its business core and its philanthropy
activity or social investment, which called Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Therefore, this research will observe the role of Chevron Geothermal Salak, Ltd as
an MNC in helping government of Indonesia to reach MDGs through its Corporate
Social Responsibility program.
Thus, this research applies qualitative analysis through interview and
received primary data right from the company as well as secondary data collection
from the internet. In this research, Chevron Geothermal Salak, Ltd. is used as
company sample whereas its CSR programs managed to help the government of
Indonesia achieving MDGs target by 2015. The contribution itself is manifested in
supporting the local community development in Bogor and Sukabumi regencies.
The result of this research indicates that although Corporate Responsibility (CR)
program conducted by the Chevron Geothermal Salak, Ltd. is not directly intended
for MDGs, the programs could be categorized as a systematic effort to help the
government of Indonesia reaching MDGs target at the regional level.
