TITLE:
Evaluation of Village Fund Management in Yapen Islands Regency Papua Province (Case Study at PasirPutih Village, South Yapen District)
AUTHORS:
Fernandes Simangunsong, Satrio Wicaksono
KEYWORDS:
Evaluation, Village Fund Management, Local Government Organizations
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.5 No.9,
September
26,
2017
ABSTRACT: Successful implementation of Law No. 6 of 2014 on Village requires support
from all parties, government, institute of representatives, and community.
Therefore, it is necessary to have comprehensive understanding on the content
of this Law of Village, Government Regulation No. 60 of 2015, as
amended in Government Regulation No. 22 of 2015, and most recently
amended in Government Regulation No. 8 of 2016 on Village Fund Derived
from State Budget. This study was implemented due to many problems on
management village fund management at PasirPutih Village. Therefore, this
study is titled “Evaluation of Village Fund Management in Yapen Islands Regency,
Papua Province (Case Study at PasirPutih Village, South Yapen District)”.
This study was aimed to describe how evaluation of village fund management
at PasirPutih Village was implemented, and also supporting and inhibiting
factors on the village fund management. This study used qualitative
research method. Data collection techniques used were interview, document
study, and observation. The result indicated that quality of human resources
of PasirPutih Village personnel were inadequate compared to their duties,
authorities, and responsibilities. In addition, KampungPutih Village revenue
in 2015 derived from only village fund and community participation was still
very low. Therefore, this study would also discuss about the inhibiting factors
in village fund management and what efforts should be done in order to
overcome the inhibiting factors, such as how to improve quality of human resources
to accomplish the implementation of village fund management appropriately.
In terms of technical assistance, training, and education on village
fund management was good and appropriate.