The implementation of Law No. 6 2014 faces obstacles due to the weak quality of village officials and institutions. This has an impact on the weakening role of the village government in its function as a development accelerator. It is necessary to increase the capacity of the apparatus in order to understand how development planning processes should be carried out at the village level, and how these processes are supported by strong village government institutions. In addition, there needs to be a control mechanism for the village government. This can be done by strengthening the role of the BPD. With the increased quality and capacity of village government apparatus and institutions, as well as strong civil society control played by the BPD, there will be a synergy in implementing good development at the village level. Village officials are no longer the sole player in village development. Efforts to create these ideal conditions continue to be in progress at the village level and will always be dynamic due to the influence of supralocal powers which are sometimes not in line with the development and will of the local community.====Implementasi UU No. 6 Tahun 2014 menghadapi kendala akibat lemahnya kualitas aparat dan kelembagaan desa. Hal ini berdampak pada semakin lemahnya peran pemerintah desa dalam fungsinya sebagai akselerator pembangunan. Perlu adanya peningkatan kapasitas aparat agar memahami bagaimana proses-proses perencanaan pembangunan harus dilakukan di tingkat desa serta bagaimana proses-proses tersebut didukung oleh kuatnya kelembagaan pemerintah desa. Selain itu, perlu ada mekanisme kontrol terhadap pemerintah desa. Hal ini bisa dilakukan dengan penguatan peran BPD. Dengan meningkatnya kualitas dan kapasitas aparat dan kelembagaan pemerintah desa serta kontrol masyarakat sipil yang kuat yang diperankan oleh BPD, akan ada sinergi pelaksanaan pembangunan yang baik di tingkat desa. Aparat desa tidak lagi menjadi pemain tunggal pembangunan desa. Upaya penciptaan kondisi ideal ini terus berproses di tingkat desa dan akan selalu dinamis akibat pengaruh kekuasaan supralokal yang terkadang tidak sejalan dengan perkembangan dan kehendak masyarakat lokal.

Corruption is a crucial issue in Indonesia, including in the administration of village government. This article aims to explain the roots of corruption seen from an anthropological analysis of corruption. This article describes the factors causing corruption practices in rural Java, i.e., local values in village governance practices. The research was conducted in several villages in Bojonegoro Regency-East Java. The data were collected through a series of participatory observations, in-depth interviews, and searching archives. The informants were divided into three groups, i.e., the village officials, the elite groups who were against the village head, and the neutral group. The findings of this study indicate that the root of corruption in the village is caused by strong local values such as loyalty to the village head from his followers, solid harmony, and the ability for the village head to manifest himself as an ideal leadership. Such values make relational models that are full of pleasantries for the sake of themselves and their groups to perpetuate power. This study concludes that non-values factors that further complicate the financial administration system in the form of supralocal interventions had a wider impact on the worsening of the deviation in budget usage.

This study aims to investigate the connection between conditional cash transfers (CCTs) and stunting and identify the factors contributing to stunting among Indonesia’s poor. The analysis relies on the data collected in 2007 and 2009. Infants aged 0–36 months from families receiving CCTs were compared with a control group using the randomized controlled trial (RCT) method. These infants from poor households, who were stunted, and were not exclusively breastfed, were selected randomly. The data were analyzed using logistic regression with the STATA program (v.13). The research findings show that CCTs alone can not impact the prevalence of stunting. In order to optimize the effectiveness of the CCT scheme, factors related to the mother’s age at childbirth, education, employment, the sex of the household head, and the geographic condition should be taken into account. This research would reinforce the need for CCT programs linked closely in design with effective social behavior change programs. The study recommends further research examining how CCT would impact stunting among groups in low-income families.

AbstrakTawuran antarpelajar yang menjurus pada tindakan kriminalitas (klithih) sedang marak di Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY). Kondisi ini tidak terlepas dari melemahnya peran keluarga dan sekolah dalam pola pengasuhan anak. Tindakan negatif dalam bentuk aksi klithih merupakan perwujudan dari pencarian jati diri yang tidak tepat karena tindakan tersebut semata-mata mengedepankan kontrol diri yang lemah. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa 65,6 persen masyarakat Yogyakarta menyatakan kekerasan kelompok, terutama aksi klithih, meningkat dalam kurun waktu satu tahun terakhir. Penyebab utamanya adalah lemahnya peran orang tua dalam pengasuhan (65,7 persen), salah pergaulan (52,5 persen), dan lemahnya peran sekolah (36,2 persen). Upaya yang harus dilakukan dalam penanganan masalah tawuran pelajar adalah adanya sinergi yang baik antara pihak sekolah dan orang tua, di antaranya dengan meningkatkan komunikasi yang baik antara keduanya dalam pembinaan dan pengawasan pelajar, terutama model komunikasi personal dengan sentuhan teknologi informasi. Kata kunci: tawuran pelajar, pola asuh, pendidikan karakterAbstract Student brawls that lead to criminal activities called klithih (a Javanese term for violence among teenage students) is currently rampant in Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY). This condition is related to the weakening role of families and schools in nurturing the students. The negative action, klithih, is a manifestation of improper identity searching because it demonstrates a lack of self-control. The research showed that 65.6% of the community of Yogyakarta were agreed that group violence especially klithih had increased in the last year, and the main cause was the weakening role of parents (65.7%), wrong association (52.5%) and schools (36.2 %). Therefore, efforts must be made to create a good synergy between the schools and parents in handling student brawls. One of the efforts is improving good communication between the two parties in coaching and supervising teenage students, especially through a model of personal communication involving information technology.