Abstract

Ketut Sukiyono ,Septri Widiono, Enggar Apriyanto

Household wellbeing issue is a very complex notion with many dimensions. This research used Chayat, et al (2007) nested shape of poverty model to measure household wellbeing status monitored in 3 aspects, namely, subjective, core, and context wellbeing. The second objective was to estimate welfare distribution among households. Twenty villages located around Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS) were determined purposively and surveyed. Twenty households from each selected village were selected using systematic random sampling method, so the total respondents were 400 households. The GINI index method was applied to ascertain household wellbeing disparities. There is no theoritical and mathematical background and explanation to use GINI index as an indicator of household wellbeing disparity or inequality in this research, with exception that the GINI index is conceptualized and understood as an indicator of inequality. The research found that the majority of households in research area felt wealthy, happy and prosperous. In terms of core wellbeing, the respondents could relatively meet their household basic needs, including health, material wealth, and education or knowledge. They also felt wealthy in terms of context wellbeing even though political, economic and natural environment spheres had less contribution to households wellbeing. Generally, subjetive wellbeing among villages appeared less diverse or had low inequality; however, if viewed from core, context as well as agregate wellbeing, the disparity of wellbeing was more obvious