| Overall | Objective | Enhance the quality of life through poverty alleviation | 1. Improving public services in the village |
| 2. Poverty alleviation |
| 3. Promote rural economy |
| 4. Improving Inequality development gaps in the villages |
| 5. Strengthening rural communities as subjects of development |
| Effectiveness | Transformation from recipient country to ODA (Official Development Assistance) country | ODA recipient and contributed in SDGs (Sustainable development goals) |
| Self-help approach | Principle | Self help, diligence, and cooperation | Recognition, togetherness, subsidiarity, diversity, mutual cooperation, kinship, deliberation, democracy, independence, participation, equality, empowerment, and sustainability. |
| Beneficiaries | Rural areas will be the initial focus, followed by urban regions for a nationwide program. | All of the villages in province, in regency, in city all over Indonesia |
| Villagers participation in large numbers | Villagers participation in large numbers |
| Financial resources | Government support & self-sufficiency | Government fully funded supported |
| Institutional coordination | Stakeholder engagement | All main stakeholders were involved and participated in the planning, execution, and evaluation stages. | From planning, implementing, administration, reporting and accountability |
| Linkages among institutions | There are strong vertical and horizontal links between the institutions. | Weak in vertical approach and Strong in horizontal approach between institutions |
| Lead agency | Ministry of home affairs | Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Village, Ministry of Home Affair |
| At the local level, Saemaul Movement has an administrative agency and a local council. | Local government in the city and regency |
| Implementation approach | Approach | Approaches from top-down and bottom-up | Approaches from top-down and bottom-up |
| Project design | The president launched a national policy frameworks for community (village) development. | Medium Term National Development Planning (RPJMN) for all of village in Indonesia from 2015 until present |
| Strategy | Community participation and decentralized program | Community participation and decentralized program |
| Project implementation have four step to do. | The implementation of the project have two steps |
| According to the growth level of the community, it was classified as a basic, self-developing, or self-reliant village. | Based on: number of villagers, rural poverty rate, village area, and the geographical difficulty of the village. |
| Project | The government suggests 40 projects, which the villagers contribute to, however the villagers select which improvements are necessary for the community. | In 2018 the project was implemented in 33 provinces, in 434 cities, 73.218 villages, total allocation 60 Trillion Rupiah |
| The program’s focus was on reliability and long-term sustainability. Projects with a low chance of succeeding and a significant output and result were applied first, followed by the hard ones. | In 2015-2016 project with high return of outcome in 2015-2016: |
| - Village road 95.2 thousand km, |
| - Bridge 914,000 meter |
| - Waterways 22.616 unit |
| - Revolution village 1.338 unit |
| - Village health clinic 4,004 unit |
| - Village market 3,106 unit |
| - Draw well 19.485 unit |
| - Drainage and Irrigation 103,405 unit |
| Project have high risk in implementation, however supervising by Audit Board Agency |