Abstract
The village fund was introduced in 2014 to stimulate development in villages all over Indonesia. However, the special task force of the village fund in the mid of 2017 solely had received 10,000 complaints regarding suspicion of misuse of the village fund, which resulted in 200 village officials end up in jail. Therefore, this study is to explore many aspects affecting the processes of planning and establishing of village budget in a village located at Madura. A qualitative approach is applied in this study to enable researchers to explore many aspects of the management of the village fund. The findings of this study indicate that the Musrenbangdes as a tool in the planning stage were intervened by the head of the village without considering the interests of local society. Consequently, development proposals contained in the Musrenbangdes, which later were elaborated in the RPJMDesa as mid-term programs and the RKPDesa as short-term programs, were determined by the head of the village and his officials. Meanwhile, the head of the village is not equipped to handle the planning and budgeting process of the village fund. Hence, the head of the village placed his right-hand man as a coordinator to manage the village fund, resulting in a lack of transparency in the management of the fund.
Highlights
Villages law no. 06/2014 signifies to give autonomy to every village in four facets, i.e. (1) governance;(2) implementation of development; (3) community development; and (4) empowerment of villagers
The central government encourages the involvement of the local community to participate thoroughly in the planning of usage of the fund or budgeting
The special task force of the village fund in the mid of 2017 solely had received 10,000 complaints regarding suspicion of misuse of the village fund, which resulted in 200 village officials end up in jail
Summary
Villages law no. 06/2014 signifies to give autonomy to every village in four facets, i.e. (1) governance;. All these arrangements make tasks of the head of the village along with his/her officials more complicated than before, and it raises happiness and anxiety at the same time These phenomena have been portrayed in some previous studies, such as a study in Banyuajuh village of Bangkalan district. His finding indicates that officials of the village become anxious because they have to handle many more tasks along with responsibility compared to the previous era. Programs contained in the APBDes are supposed to be determined in a village meeting in which the programs will be funded by the central government channeling through the village fund (Surya et al, 2013) These previous studies are corroborated by recent studies conducted by (Dewanti et al, 2015) and (Dachliyati, 2016). The approach applied in this study is a distinguishing factor from the previous studies
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