To prevent the village fund to be corrupted, the people of Mangliawan Village, Malang Regency assemble a cultural-based corruption prevention mechanism by building a cultural-based village. Ethnography method was employed to collect data and decide as well as conduct in-depth interview with several key resource persons. The separately collected information were verified through focus group discussion and other processes of information maturation. The results of the study document that cultural-based village development face some challenges from the candidate of village head and its apparatus who feel uncomfortable and afraid of the custom consequences from Oath of Service that they declared. For the people, Oath of Service demands the village apparatus to not only responsible for the definite parties such as the government and the people, but also to the indefinite ones such as the ancestral spirits and their late great-grandparents.