TITLE:
Village Administration in Indonesia: A Socio-Political Corporation Formed by State
AUTHORS:
Chanif Nurcholis, Sri Wahyu Krida Sakti, Ace Sriati Rachman
KEYWORDS:
Village Government, Government Affairs, Pseudo Local Self-Government
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.9 No.2,
April
23,
2019
ABSTRACT: Village
government is the lowest level administration in Indonesia. It is formed by
law. However, a village head is not a government official and also village
employees are not civil servants. The Village Government has authority to
administer government affairs; nevertheless, the central government doesn’t
decentralize the government affairs to the Village. The organizational
structure is like a municipal, consisting of a mayor and council; yet the mayor
is not chief of local bureaucrats and the council is just a voluntary board
that func-tions like a council. Such a fact is problematic, which raises the
question re-garding the legal status of village in the administration of the
Republic of In-donesia. The study used a post-positivistic approach with a qualitative
meth-od. Jabon Mekar village, Bogor Regenstschap (Municipal), Banten Province
was chosen as the locus of the study. The results conclude that the village
administration is a pseudo local self-government. To that end, a village
institution needs to become a public organization to comply with the Indonesia
Constitution of 1945, in order to provide public services that would prosper
the people.