Suku Anak Dalam (SAD) is part of a primitive indigenous community that is part of Indonesia’s cultural diversity and one of the traditional tribes living in Jambi province, especially in the village of Pompa Air. The first tribe lived in Jambi Province was SAD, and this tribe came from an ancient human, the war era in Jambi. SAD able to survive by utilizing forest products and hunting, their belief in the mystical matter because they ascribed to their ancestral heritage. Technological development is very far from this community, even the whole development of aspects of life is very now from decent words such as health, economics, education, fashion, and others. So far the Government has tried to provide assistance to this community and make this community much better in the future so that it can live in regular socialization with other community members, various development programs also provided for this community. The Government undertook developments aimed at raising the dignity and dignity of this community, which was not entirely successful, and the top-down program also often failed. So to overcome the problem of SAD can’t implement with one stakeholder, collaboration is an effort taken by the Government to collaborate with other parties, in this case, PT Pertamina, to establish good public policies and improve SAD living standards and for the sake of a better SAD future.

This study uses the Ansell and Gash collaboration model with the concept of collaborative governance theory. It uses qualitative methods with various explanations of the data that researchers have obtained, data collection in this study through observation and interviews with stakeholders. The results show that this collaboration brought a significant change for SAD in the village of Pompa Air and gave new life to the remote indigenous community in the town of Pompa Air known as Suku Anak Dalam.

Keywords: Collaboration, Development, Public Policy, Suku Anak Dalam,

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