Abstract
Village government is the lowest level administration in Indonesia. It is formed by law. However, a village head is not a government official and also village employees are not civil servants. The Village Government has authority to administer government affairs; nevertheless, the central government doesn’t decentralize the government affairs to the Village. The organizational structure is like a municipal, consisting of a mayor and council; yet the mayor is not chief of local bureaucrats and the council is just a voluntary board that func-tions like a council. Such a fact is problematic, which raises the question re-garding the legal status of village in the administration of the Republic of In-donesia. The study used a post-positivistic approach with a qualitative meth-od. Jabon Mekar village, Bogor Regenstschap (Municipal), Banten Province was chosen as the locus of the study. The results conclude that the village administration is a pseudo local self-government. To that end, a village institution needs to become a public organization to comply with the Indonesia Constitution of 1945, in order to provide public services that would prosper the people.
Highlights
Angelino (1931: pp. 403-411) stated that village administration is an indigenous community institutional buraucracy under control of a “Regentsraad” (Council of Municipal) and a “Resident”
Organizational Structure The Organizational Structure and Work Procedure (OSWP) of Jabon Mekar Village situated in West Java Indonesia can be exposed as follows: the village head is the leader
The village secretary is the head of staff consisting of six heads of village affairs: 1) Head of Government Affairs; 2) Head of Development Affairs; 3) Head of Financial Affairs; 4) Head of Public Affairs; 5) Head of Administration Affairs; and 6) Head of General Affairs
Summary
Day (1904) and Furnivall (1916, 1956) stated that village administration ruled by IGO 1906 juncto IGOB 1938 is a kind of indirect rule (indirect bestuurd gebied) model. Villages under IGO 1906 in relation with (juncto) IGOB 1938 were socio-political corporations under control of the State. This village administration is presided by the district head as government officer that runs central government public service mission in local government. This village administration is presided by the district head as government officer that runs central government public service mission in local government. Angelino (1931: pp. 403-411) stated that village administration is an indigenous community institutional buraucracy under control of a “Regentsraad” (Council of Municipal) and a “Resident” (government official whom his job position is under the Dutch Colonial Governor and above Mayor or Regent)
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