Context and Purpose of Collaborative Governance in Rural Development in Joint Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDesma): Choice or Motivation?

Abstract

The rural development policy provided in Law No. 6/2014 on villages as a solution to overcome poverty and improve welfare at the village level has failed due to lack of serious intention, mutual trust, commitment and common understanding of goals. This research aims to explain the context and objectives of collaborative governance between villages and third parties (private sector) in joint village enterprises (BUMDesma): choice or motivation? The method used in this research uses a qualitative research type with a descriptive approach to provide the results of the context and objectives of collaborative governance between villages and third parties (private sector) in BUMDesma in Ngantang sub-district, Malang District. The results of this research show that commitment is very important in collaborative governance of rural development, but what happens is that collaboration goes badly, has no meaning and significance, and collaboration in the implementation of rural development runs covertly with the aim of competition between village governments characterized by the ego sectoral village area that is concerned with the needs of each village.