The Quality of Documents and Preparation of Village Mid-Term Development Planning (RPJMDes) after the Establishment of Village Law

Abstract

According to Law Number 6 of 2014 on Village (Village Law), a village must have a Village Mid-Term Development Plan (abbreviated as RPJMDes) as one of the requirements for disbursing the village funds. This study is conducted to determine the quality of documents and the process of RPJMDes making by applying mixed methods, which is a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The study sites covered 4 (four) districts in the Special Region of Yogyakarta with 10 samples of villages from each district (40 villages on the whole). The results of this study show that the diversity in document quality and RPJMDes document preparation process caused by the ability of team 11 (11 formulators of the village mid-term development plan), the ability of village governments to direct and provide technical assistance and guidance, the presence or absence of the role of third parties (universities), as well as the interaction between villages in an effort to understand the scope and the contents of the RPJMDes.