Implementation of Independent Village Concept in Accordance

with Act No. 6 Year 2014 to Villagers in Parmonangan

Husni Thamrin

, Hatta Ridho

Departement of social welfare science, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Jl. Dr. A Sofyan No.1

Medan 20155 ,Indonesia

Departement of public administration, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Jl. Dr. A Sofyan No.1

Medan 20155 ,Indonesia

Keywords: Village, Independent, Village apparatus, Villagers

Abstract: Act No. 6 Year 2014 on Village has put a headman as a powerful user to budget, as well as a head of an

agency in the scope of either district or provincial government. Unlike the head of local government, the

headman generally has a standard level of education, which is either senior high school (SMA) or even

Junior High School (SMP). This has an impact to his capacity, roles and responsibilities as NAC, which are

crucial to boost rural development or vice versa. Similar problems are experienced by the whole rural

people. Their education levels are also generally dominated by graduates from high school. One of the cases

can be seen in Parmonangan, District Palipi, Toba Samosir. Education of state financial management that

has been developed in college is the method to create the budget administrator who has qualified in

managing the state’s finance. The village administration apparatus under Act No. 6 Year 2014 have the

authority complex in village’s fund management from the state budget. Similar case is applicable for rural

communities. The Act No. 6 Year 2014 has given greater space for villagers to participate in village

development. Therefore, an increase towards capacity of rural communities is important to strengthen the

development process in order to reflect the participatory type of development. When it gets done, then the

concept of self-sufficient villages in accordance with Act No. 6 Year 2014 can actually be implemented.

The achievement of this program will produce a concept of social engineering on implementing independent

village. Building the people capacity and the village apparatus is expected to boost such synergy between

the people and the village apparatus in rural planning and development..

1 INTRODUCTION

When you think about a village, we always think of

an expanse of green area that extends as far as eye

scan see, as well asits people’s understated nature.

On the other hand, the village has always placed as

the retarded region, far from the glitzy urban

development. In such modern era, there are still

many people who assume village as the slower and

less-advantaged area in terms of development.

The village was originally formed because of

their local knowledge and customs in a society to

organize and manage local resource such as gardens,

rivers, soils, forests, etc., devoted to its social

welfare. The village with such various aspects

becomes the basis for representation of all entities

within the group of homogeneous characteristics,

which are tightly-bound emotional in social system

and primitive organizational culture where the head

man acts as a political, economic and socio-cultural

central gravity.

Villagers are the object of rural

development under Act No 6 Year 2016, given an

active role in process of rural development. This

then makes the rural development become

appropriate in accordance with the needs of rural

communities’. To keep in mind, the role of

patrimonial political system is the system that

thrives on Indonesians. Such transactional political

systems would massively create a passive society in

development. The assumption of that public policy

in village is on the village elite’s realm is

presumptive that would be a threat in the

implementation of participatory rural development.

Samosir regency has a variety of problems that

have not currently been resolved. One example is the

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use of pesticides for agriculture and its adverse

effects to Lake Toba’s ecosystem. The research by

Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) in 2013

showed that Lake Toba area is currently included in

medium polluted category. This condition is caused

by such activities nearby Lake Toba as disposal of

household waste, agricultural waste, to industrial

waste. Presidential Regulation No. 49 Year 2016

indicates such central government’s seriousness to

create a viable Lake Toba to be an internationally

competitive tourist site. Referring to the policy, the

villages around Lake Toba should be able to prepare

their communities in the national long-term project

through participatory development.

Parmonangan is a village located in

Samosir regency. Similar to the general problem at

various villages in implementing Act No. 6 Year

2014, the quality of human resources also remains a

serious problem in Parmonangan. Based on the data

from Central Statistics Agency in 2016, it can be

seen that as many as 60% of the villagers in

Parmonanganare fresh graduates in Junior High

School (JSS). Implementation of Act No. 6 Year

2014 can be a blessing for the villagers. The

villagers will get a major role in developing in where

they are living. But on the other hand, the

implementation of Act No. 6 Year 2014 also

provides the moral burden of the rural population.

The reality can be seen as if the village were forced

to be able to manage fund, government, and

resources independently without being coupled with

the preparation of all aspects in it. This then makes

the planning of rural development still show

characteristic implementation of participatory

development. The people in Parmonanganare still

largely passive towards development activities in

their villages. This is due to the lack of knowledge

and the concept of independent village development.

The empowerment program is trying to

make an inovation related to environmental

management, socio-cultural, economic issues and

rural communities. Related to the background as

mentioned, the authors are interested to implement

the development program entitled "Implementation

of Independent Village Concept in accordance with

Act No. 6 Year 2014 to Villagers in Parmonangan,

District Palipi, Samosir ".

2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This Community Service was conducted using three

approaches, namely:

1. Preparation (Socialization)

Outreach activities conducted include an

explanation about the purpose and objective of the

implementation of service programs in the village

with the target group in Parmonangan: Helping

guild, indigenous groups, and youth groups. Service

program aims to provide a community service

program as follows:

 Socialization about Act No. 6 Year 2014

This program is aimed to socializing and

conditioning the village government and the society

village in the role of implementing rural

development as mandated by Act No. 6 Year 2014

 Socialization about Independent Village concept

The program aims as investment of

independence value in carrying out the construction

of a village.

 Socialization of Participatory Development

The program aims to restore the values of

socio-cultural community as capital to implement

participatory village.

2. Participatory Learning and Action(PLA)

Implementation of this method will involve

all stakeholders in the village. This method will train

the sensitivity of all stakeholders in the village in

view of the problems encountered during the

development process. Some of the activities in this

method include:

 questionnaires

Questionnaires will be conducted in two

stages:pre-training and post-training. Questionnaires

were distributed to determine how the initial

comprehension and evaluation for this capacity-

building activities.

 In-class discussion

 Objective: to cultivate sensitivity (awareness)

and build frameworks (framework of thinking)

Activity: such exposure of the village regarding to

how governance that had been running, then discuss

it together when adjusted toAct No. 6 of 2014 about

Village. This session will also contained with the

view of the village community as a whole in Focus

Group Discussion (FGD ).

 Case Study

 Objective: to increase the sensitivity of the

village government to the case of budget

management and be able to analyze on the given

basic concepts which are close to the village

administration.

 Activity: the discussion about cases related to the

topics such as concept of rural development

planning, local resources management of the village,

village-owned business entity (BUMD), as well as

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the village fund management in accordance with the

needs of the villagers’.

3. Repairing System (Improvement System

Model)

This activity will focus on designing

educational model of environmental

management, local resources, and culture-based

rural economy with customized systems and

agreed with the village and villagers.

 Objective: To provide a stimulus to the

village and the community to think about the use

of the environment, local resources, and

economy to improve the social welfare. This

activity is also intended as an attempt to real

rural solving (problem solving).

 Activity: facilitators create a SWOT analysis for

the village and provide a discussion by the

village government and its society. Village

government and its society then create a scheme

of repairing system that could solve the

difficulties of environmental management, local

resources, and economy occurred at all times.

3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The implementation of Community Services (PKM)

carried out by the Institute of Community Services,

University of Sumatra Utara,started from the 29th

May 2018. The Community Services activities is

divided into three sessions. The goal is to ensure that

this service activities can be done on ongoing basis

in the future, given that this is a dedication service

activities with a multi-year scheme. These activities

include:

3.1 Socialization Program

Socialization began withthe meeting with organizing

representatives andhead of Parmonangan.

Parmonangan Government highly appreciated the

arrival of the team to give a commitment to help the

successful implementation of the activities carried

out by the team of Community Services, University

of Sumatra Utara. Lack of socialization conducted

along with Act No. 6 Year 2014 about village in

Parmonangan reduced such public participation.

During the day, the headman invitedthe team to visit

the village office to see its condition. Parmonangan

Village Office is a newlyrenovated building in 2017

through the village fund budget.

3.2 Participatory Learning and Action

(PLA)

Community Service implemented

Participatory Learning and Action (PLS) as an effort

to increase the capacity of communities by

conducting in-class discussions, along with such

community service, conducted to provide materials

on the Village Act. The team, at first, explained how

the Act This village can be present today in the

midst of the people. Starting fromen lighting about

the initial establishment of regulations about the

village in 1979, where in 1979 the village suffered

relegation from the initial design as a three-level

autonomous regions. New Order regime put the

village as an instrument of the bureaucracy through

a policy of uniformity against all micro entities at a

lower level in terms of the village. When this policy

was applied, customary villages experienced a

transition process from an old value system that

relied on micro social interests to a value system

based on the interests of the authorities and the

bureaucracy.

This activity has received a very good

response from the community. They began to

explain the obstacles they’d been operationally

dealing with. The headman was very excited since

such rare activities have been highly effective forum

to bring together all the interest in the village.

Afterwards, the team had question and answer

(Q&A) sessions to the public.

Results of activity Focus Group Discussion

(FGD) held three times received the solutions

offered by representatives of community groups

including:

1. Optimizing small groups in villages such as

youth clubs, NHKBP, clan gathering groups and

others as sources of rural development

aspirations;

2. Providing a space for people to participate in

rural development;

3. Prioritize the development of agriculture as a

step to improve the economy of rural

communities dominated by the peasantry;

4. Formed a village-owned business entity

(BUMD) in which can accommodate the coffee

farming from rural community.

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There are some important issues occured in the

middle of the village community that day. One

which is such rampant Parmonangan middlemen

playing the Market Price and coffee Diseases, whose

solution was difficult to find until the following

phase of evaluation from the team

4 CONCLUSIONS

Implementing the service is able to bring the entire

target audience that has been planned in advance. In-

class discussions capable to present such

groundbreaking related to problems from all

elements of society, including the government's

commitment to the village that will initiate the

establishment of the village-owned business entity

(BUMD), focusing on coffee farming communities.

From the research that has been conducted the

district government is expected able to give more

attention to the implementation of Village Act. To

date, Villages Act is not yet fully internalized within

the village community.

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LEGISLATION

Act No. 6 Year 2014 About the village

Government Regulation No. 43 Year 2014

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