BANTUAN LUAR NEGERI AMERIKA SERIKAT MELALUI UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR

Abstract

The United States established an aid agency that facilitates the distribution of aid to developing countries. The institution is called United States Agency of International Development (USAID) becomes into a body of the United States in providing assistance to the countries affected by disasters, countries that try to escape from poverty, and those engaging in democratic reforms. One of the foreign aids given is for natural disasters in the Philippines which occurred in 2009 to 2013. The provision of foreign aids cannot be separated from the United States's motive of donor countries to recipient countries. This research aimed to determine the United States's motives to give foreign assistance in natural disasters in the Philippines through USAID. The research used qualitative design. The research methods included data collection and data analysis. Data were collected by literature to obtain secondary data. Tool of analysis in this research was the theory of foreign aid. Alan Rix and Carol Lancaster argue that the provision of foreign aids has motives and purposes including humanitarian motives, economic motives, and political/military motives. The results showed that not all foreign aids provided by the United States for natural disasters in the Philippines through USAID in 2009 to 2013 had humanitarian motives which aimed to help victims of natural disasters. This research found there were other motives such as economic motive and political/military motive. The economic motive aimed to help stabilize the economy of the Philippines after being affected by disaster, and the political/military motives aimed to re-establish the US military base in the Philippines