RKPDES is a yearly Village Development Work-Plan in Indonesia. It is also part of the whole Indonesian development planning schemes. The quality of development planning document reflects the ability of the team in interpreting the legal guidelines. If the document quality is good, it will correlate to the implementation of sustainable development. This paper describes the facts of limited understanding of the RKPDES team of Bumiaji Village, Batu Indonesia, during the drafting document processes. Therefore, it affects the proper quality of RKPDES as well as the village development. This research uses qualitative method aimed to capture holistic facts of the social definition of the team member towards the RKPDES. The research subjects are the RKPDES team member of Bumiaji Village, and the data was collected through an in-depth interview. In addition to the interview, observation, and comprehensive study of the drafting processes of RKPDES were carried out. The framework applies the sociological paradigm of Social Definition in which it is closely related to the interpretative understanding of each RKPDES team member towards the legal guidelines of development planning. There are several factors that influence these facts, such as the minimum capacity of the team members, sociological aspects of community and political interest of related stakeholders. The findings of the study reveal that the limited social understanding of the RKPDES is influenced by the mindset of the team members in addressing Social Definition toward the village development process. The reluctance of the team members to study also leads to the failure to comprehend the regulations and development planning procedures. Besides, they are not adequately assisted by the upper level of government units. These situations result in unfortunate and shortened village developments at the implementation phase.