Starting Leaps of Change from the Village:

Abstract

Village autonomy carries along a demand for villages to become self-reliant through optimization of village development that is based on local values and resources. This paper aims at exploring village development within the framework of the Saemaul Undong movement in South Korea. This paper conducts a qualitative approach, and data are collected through in-depth interviews with some key persons related to Saemaul Undong. By conducting Saemaul Undong, the village development movement in South Korea covered three important aspects: improving environmental quality, increasing income, and improving the villagers' mentality. Those three aspects became the main values in transforming rural areas of South Korea to have a better life by optimizing their resources. Freedom in deciding the village program even there was also a national development policy is one of the key success factors of the Saemaul Undong movement. The success of the implementation of the Movement spread to other countries in order to adopt the strategies and model from its country of origin.

Achieving a Developing Village based on the Village Sustainable Development Goals in Tirtonirmolo Village, Bantul Regency

“…6 of 2014) presents a novel approach to strengthening villages and communities by making the village a subject of development (known as Desa Membangun) rather than an object of development (Kadir, Zuada, & Idris, 2021). Article 3 (village regulation principle), Article 4 (objective of village regulation), Article 5 (village position), and Articles 18-22 (village authority) of village law serve as the legal authority that upholds the recognition and protection of villages (Maksum, Hariyati, Lutfi, & Defny Holidin, 2020). Village autonomy is a type of local self-government in which the state recognizes the existence of villages and offers them autonomy, democratic participation, local wisdom, social capital, authority, budget distribution, and other provisions (Maulana, 2016).…”