On strengthening the local politics to the realization of rural quality education sustainable development goals

Abstract

The Sustanaible development goals (SDGS) has been popular since 2015. SDG has abig agenda to elevate human dignity. SDGS has 17 strategic agendas where one of them isquality education. The quality education agenda must be comprehensive and fair to be realizedfor all people. Thus, this requires the central and regional government interference and the roleof local politics to make it happen. This study aims to analyze the impact of local politics on therealization of SDGs in term of quality of education. The study uses descriptive qualitativemethods. The research findings show that the fulfillment of SDGs in the field of qualityeducation in several villages in Sumenep district is still low. The role of government and localpolitics is not significant enough to encourage the realization of high SDGs in the field of qualityeducation. The realization of SDGs in the field of quality education so far has not touchedsubstantive aspects such as the quality of learning for students, the relevance of educationaloutput, un-effective learning environment as well as the quality and quantity of educationalfacilities and infrastructure. Thus, the SDGs need to be revitalized in the field of qualityeducation through strengthening local politics.