Village transfers for the environment: Lessons from community-based development programs and the village fund

Watts, John D. W.; Tacconi, Luca; Irawan, Silvia; Wijaya, Aklan H.

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2019.01.008

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“…On the other hand, the inhibiting factors existing due to village fund implementation, including less competent village official, limited supervision, and lack of community participation in every phase of Village Fund application, requires concern to be focused. Because the village fund's scope and size increase, serious and constant scrutiny should follow (Watts et al, 2019); therefore, this needs a lot of effort from many levels of government, from the village, local, regional, and national officials, to cooperatively work together to achieve poverty alleviation in rural areas.…”

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Indonesia’s Village Fund Program: Does It Contribute to Poverty Reduction?

Saragi

2021

J. Bina Praja

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To stimulate rural development and reduce poverty in rural areas, The Government of Indonesia enacted the policy of Village Fund in 2014. However, a few studies have been conducted to examine this program. This study describes how poverty alleviation goes following Village Fund Program in Indonesia between 2015-2019. The poverty reduction was represented by holistic data, including insufficient and village status improvement through the Village Development Index (VDI). The analysis is conducted using a descriptive method by dividing the areas into six regions, Sumatera, Java & Bali, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku & NT, and Papua. The result showed that over five years, the village fund dramatically increases. Moreover, this growth is along with the slight decline the poverty. The researchers found that the decreasing number of poverty from 2015 to 2019 is about 15%. The VDI status for districts/municipalities shows that the status improved from underdeveloped villages in 2015 to developing villages in 2019. Java is the region that contributed to making the status improved either to be developing, developed, or independent. At the same time, it is the Papua region known as the region consisting of most of the least underdeveloped villages. Since the goal of this policy in poverty reduction still works slowly, it needs a lot of effort from many levels of government, from the village, regional, and national officials, to work together cooperatively.

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Indonesia’s Village Fund Program: Does It Contribute to Poverty Reduction?

Saragi

2021

J. Bina Praja

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“…This research used Village Fund Allocation as a proxy in establishing BUMDes (Boonperm, Haughton & Khandker, 2013). This approach was used in recent research on fund allocation from the central government to rural development (Boonperm, Haughton & Khandker, 2013;Watts et al, 2019). This research was intended to evaluate the effect of the existence of BUMDes in villages, since there has been no research on BUMDes.…”

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The Role of Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDES) for The Village Community Economy

Puri

Khoirunurrofik

2021

EDAJ

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Regional disparities between rural and urban areas in Indonesia are still being an important issue inthe economic development. The government has carried out an economic stimulus in the village,one of them is through the Village Fund program for village development. One of the potentialpositive effects of implementing the Village Fund in Indonesia is creating a local economicinstitution that is expected to be able to develop the competition between villages through Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes). This study aimed to find out the empirical evidence whetherBUMDes, as one of the programs driving the village economy affected the welfare of ruralcommunities by looking at the differences in the improvement of the village economy. This studyused BUMDes and Village Potential (Podes) data in 2014 and 2018, and Village Fund Allocationas a proxy for economic activity at the village level by using the econometric model approach ofPropensity Score Matching and Difference in Difference with a fixed effect model. The resultsshowed that villages that had BUMDes gave a greater effect than the ones which did not haveBUMDes in improving the economy of the village community.

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“…Expensive politics goes on to buy up votes (money politic). The expectation of a good and clean Pilkades implementation is to give birth to a village head who is able to realize a village government that is responsive to the aspirations of the people, able to articulate issues, the campaign work program into an accountable public policy (Watts, Tacconi, Irawan, & Wijaya, 2019). Inter-regional Pilkades in Reban Village as the implementation of a new model of the democratic process seems to still have a space for the entry of negative traditions that have lasted for generations.…”

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Recall on Village Heads Election: An Election Law Reform

Kurnianto¹,

Kusumo²

2020

JLLR

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This study aims to analyze the model of holding village head elections between times with a case study in Reban Village, Reban District, Batang Regency. This study uses a qualitative method with a sociological juridical approach(Dawkins et al., 2019). The results of this study indicate that: 1). Inter-village head election procedures in Reban Village, Reban District, Batang Regency are in accordance with the mandate of Article 47 of Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages. However, referring to Article 45 of Government Regulation No. 43 of 2014 there are stages of selection that are not yet in accordance with technical rules: a). The holding of the election exceeds the specified time limit. Limitations of technical guidelines become the main obstacle b). Funding for the election is still fully burdened to the candidates for village heads. 2). The mechanism for electing village heads over time through a voting model with a representative system. Voters who have the right to vote are every family head who lives in Reban Village, proven by a Family Card. Elections are democratic with a turnout of 94.9%.

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Village transfers for the environment: Lessons from community-based development programs and the village fund

Cited by 51 publications

References 37 publications

Indonesia’s Village Fund Program: Does It Contribute to Poverty Reduction?

Indonesia’s Village Fund Program: Does It Contribute to Poverty Reduction?

The Role of Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDES) for The Village Community Economy

Recall on Village Heads Election: An Election Law Reform

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