This article will address the disaster resilience village (DRV) approach as a disaster preparedness method in Indonesia. This scheme became operational in 2012, exactly 5 years after disaster management legislation was passed in 2007. This DRV strategy is a component of the central government’s decentralisation of disaster management to local governments. Using a method of doctrinal legal review, this study argues that the DRV approach to disaster preparedness at the village level is inefficient. That is because the village apparatus is the central player in this DRV, but residents of disaster-prone areas are regarded as an afterthought when it comes to disaster management. Consequently, efforts to strengthen emergency preparedness for residents in disaster-prone areas will be harmed. As a result, it is unsurprising that whenever a disaster occurs in Indonesia, the death toll and damage to property remain high. This is because people who live in disaster-prone areas lack a framework for transforming knowledge and scientific experience with disasters. In addition, this DRV strategy opposes previous disaster experts’ community-based and transformative approaches. However, direct field research on communities living in disaster-prone areas is needed to obtain empirical evidence of the DRV approach’s shortcomings.

One of the increasing trends in the era of regional autonomy is the regional extension both at the provincial level and at district/city level. However, such situation in some cases has emerged some new problems, such as: social conflict, conflict on natural resources and conflict in the regional boundaries. This study examines the problems; first, what factors are causing the dispute on the boundaries in the extension of new autonomous region? Second, how is the pattern of the settlement of boundary dispute provided in the Indonesian legal system? Third, what is the role of the Government in solving the boundary dispute? This is a juridical-empirical research. The study concluded that: First, the boundary dispute has been triggered by the area extension process not requiring the border as a legal requirement in the area expansion. The requirements fulfilled were more technical, physical and political. Second, the pattern of the boundary dispute resolution generally is through two ways: the non-legal border dispute resolution, and legal settlement. In non-legal resolution, it was mediated by MOHA and Governors; while, in the legal dispute resolution it reached through a judicial review to the Supreme Court or the Constitutional Court. Third, in the dispute of area border, the government's role was the facilitator in accordance with the level of its dispute case.

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Jetis Village has SMEs that are engaged in modeste (sewing and embroidery) which are still implemented with conventional systems in terms of production, management and marketing. This makes SME Partners have some security when they have to face the big order season or when they have to compete with other similar SMEs that have developed modern management. UKM players who are mostly the attention in this service. This service method is 1) Observation; 2) Focus Group Discussions; 3) Dissemination; and 4) Evaluation. The results of this service are 1) activities focused on partner networking, managerial strengthening, and online marketing training through social media; 2) SME Partners understand the managerial processes that are recorded and monitored starting from financial managerial, human resources, and production raw materials; 3) SME Partners are facilitated by related agencies to have networks with raw material suppliers and potential market candidates; 4) SME Partners own and are able to assist Facebook Pages which are used for online marketing.

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