A Study of Village Regulation Making Process in the Village of Adat Saibatin Community in Cukuh Balak Sub-district, Tanggamus District, Lampung Province, Indonesia

Abstract

This research studied the village regulation making process based on the Law No. 32/2004 and the relationships among head of village, administrators of Village Consultative Board (Badan Permusyawaratan Desa/bpd/bhp), and adat leaders in the village of Adat Saibatin community. The research was conducted in several villages of Cukuh Balak sub-district, Tanggamus district, Lampung province, Indonesia in 2012. The data were collected by employing interview and observation. The results of this study showed that the regulation making process in the village of Adat Saibatin community did not have clear stages to which the regulations were made unilaterally by the head of the village himself/herself. The adat leaders’ participation as community leaders in the villages almost disappeared and unstated in the regulations. Furthermore, Village Consultative Board was also in a weak position due to the absence of deliberation and agreement as the core principle known as the villages’ law in the process of making the regulations.

Research on the Application of Village Regulations and Folk Conventions in Social Governance of Rural Areas

“…The people's commune system concluded each village even each peasant in the direct control of national public power. Such kind of strong control of the rural society made the farmers lose the activity in self-management and self-service, not conducive to the rational development of rural society [1]. After the reform and opening up, in the positive exploration, the rural society adopted the mode of rural governance, but there is still a gap between the governance effect and the ideal effect.…”