THE HAPPINESS AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: UNIQUENESS OF INDONESIA PAPER

What are people looking for in their life? Is it happiness or welfare? How do people try to develop their life? Is there any correlation among happiness, welfare and human development? How its correlation among them? These questions are like the eternal questions. Every year UNDP published a report about happiness and human development index in each country in the world. Every year World Economic Forum published GDP in each country in the world. The study tries to discuss three things. There are happiness, human development, and people welfare in Indonesia. It is also find the uniqueness of the variables. By using descriptive analysis and regression analysis both using intervening and moderating variable, the study concluded that in Indonesia, the older of their age, it seems more unhappy. It appears that in Indonesia there is still a striking balance between gross regional domestic product n Java and outside Java Island. Human development has no direct effect on the level of happiness of the population. Happiness of life cannot be explained by the human development and the gross regional domestic product.