Post-Covid-19 Village Fund - Based Economic Recovery Strategy in Sumbawa Regency

Abstract

Sumbawa Regency is in the orange zone classification, which is a zone with a high risk of spreading and the potential for the Covid-19 virus to be uncontrolled. The outbreak of Covid-19 has implications for sluggishness and retardation in economic activity in various sectors. For this implementation, the NTB Provincial Government and the Sumbawa Regency Government responded with several handling policies, but they had not yet maximally touched the economic recovery side of the village community, especially in the Sumbawa Regency. The purpose of this study is to formulate a post-Covid-19 rural community economic recovery strategy based on the "Village Fund" as an alternative solution. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The data was collected by using the method of literature study and interviewing research informants. Data analysis was carried out by combining the results of a literature study and interviews as a basis for the formulation of a recovery strategy. The result of this study indicates that the village fund-based rural community economic recovery strategy in Sumbawa Regency was implemented by allocating village funds in the field of village community empowerment programs. The village community empowerment program consists of five economic sectors, including 1) marine and fisheries; 2) agriculture and livestock; 3) cooperatives and SMEs; 4) investment; and 5) trade and industry. Each sector recommends programs and activities that can be used as a reference for villages in the Sumbawa Regency in the context of community economic recovery after Covid-19.