Understanding the Utilization of Indigenous Institutions: The Case of Wonosobo, Central Java, Indonesia

Indigenous institutions may play a vital role in sustainable development at the local level by serving the people’s interests and supporting their livelihood. By spreading structured questionnaires to the households in our research area, this research aims to find the determinant factor of the utilization of community institutions, especially the indigenous institutions. Per household, 26 features, including demographic, psycho-social, economic, and location variables, were collected to study the predictability of the utilization of the community institutions. The results show that the location variables are the most crucial for explaining the utilization of the community institutions in times of need.