The Good Governance Implementation at Village Level in East Nusa Tenggara Province

Abstract

The Government of Indonesia has implemented a progressive policy on rural development since 2015 through distributing enormous budget that has never been given so far, called as village fund policy. This policy is intended to empowering of poor people in the village throughtout the development of village infrastructure to eliminate poverty or for poverty alleviation. In the period of 2015-2018, the budget increased significantly, reach one billion IDR for each village accros the country. From the national spending recorded that in 2015, the village fund reaches IDR 20.7 trillion, increased to 47 trillion in 2016, 60 trillion in 2017 and 60 trillion in 2018. The research tries to reveal the implementation of Village Fund Policy in East Nusa Tenggara Province, as the third poorest in Indonesia. Research conducted in five villages in Ende and East Timor Tengah Regency, based on random purposive sampling method, involved 204 respondents. Reseach used quantitative approach through Discriminant analysis and good governance concept used as a basic framework. The result from data analysis showed that people participation and village official's responsiveness came as the succes factor for village fund policy management in East Nusa Tenggara Province. This research implies that the Village Fund policy will only succeed if good collaboration is created between the community as the subject of development and the village government as the manager of development policies at the lower levels.

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