Actor’s Network of Stunting Prevention Program in Bandar Lampung City, Lampung, Indonesia

Abstract

Today, all government institution should work under volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. In this situation, each institution or domain policy is more dependent to each other and demanding more inter-government relationship or collaborative process to intervening various public affairs. This paper attempt to understanding the complexity of actor relationship to fighting stunting in the Bandar Lampung City (BLC), Lampung, Indonesia, using social network analysis (SNA) approach. The authors select informant purposively and construct relationship data based on depth interview. Gephi for Mac OS X was used to visualize actor relationship and analyzing characteristic of network structure (i.e., network density, reciprocal relationship, and centrality). This article focused on to answer several questions: what are the characteristics of social networks in stunting prevention program? Who are the dominant actors in social networks in stunting prevention program? How many factions are there in social networks in stunting prevention program? Finally, the authors discuss practical and theoretical implications of the finding.