development and the empowerment of village
communities in Garut regency. As a result, the
allocated Village Fund is not used to finance the
development programs and the empowerment of the
village community so that the use of the Village
Fund is not suitable for it.
Based on the results of previous research, the
aspect of citizen participation is an important issue
in the use of the Village Fund. The urge for wider
citizen participation in the development has been so
strong for the government to meet. This is a
reflection of an effective and efficient governance.
Theoretically, participation can be realized through
decentralization, whereas legally the established
government is to provide a broader and stronger
means for public involvement in the governance
(Muluk, 2009, p. 71). On the other hand, on the issue
of citizen participation; it often seems unfashionable
today toconsidercitizen participation as a viable
means of policy development(Goggin et al., 1990, p.
81), that is a bottom-up perspective policy that will
be successful in its implementation because the issue
of citizen participation will create a complex and
reciprocal interaction between government - private
- and society. Thus, the participation can be
interpreted as voluntary involvement of people to do
something but is directed to participate in their own
strength.
The approach on the participation in the
development context is not only partial to the
implementation activities but also comprehensive
from the planning process, the organizing of
resources, the implementation, and the evaluation
(Jamaluddin, 2016). Thus, the participation can be
interpreted as a voluntary involvement of people or
the people do not feel compelled to do something
but are directed to participate in their own power and
beyond their control. According to Muluk, such an
understanding is more familiar than the term for the
village government to gain spontaneous participation
from the community, given the limited capacity of
village communities and the limited access to the
participation. Rather effective participation is
motivational participation driven by the urges and
stimuli that cause the community to take part in the
management of the Village Fund. In a more concise
way, communities are encouraged to join together in
programming, organizing resources, carrying out
development and empowerment activities, and
overseeing the use of the Village Fund budget.
Referring to the background, the main problem
of research can be formulated (problem statement)
that is "Citizen participation in implementation of
the use of Village Fundis not yet optimal". Based on
the formulation of the problem, the research
question (problem questions) is "How is the pattern
of citizen participation in the implementation of the
use of the Village Fund?". While the purpose of the
study is to analyze the participation of citizens in the
implementation of the use of the Village Fund.
2 METHODOLOGY
This research used descriptive method as it presents
a picture of the specification of a situation, social
setting or relationship. Neuman claims that
descriptive study presents a picture of the types of
people or of social activities" (Neuman, 2006, p. 35
in Sugiyono, 2014). The data required in this
research are primary and secondary data. Primary
data were obtained through observations made by
observing the phenomena associated with the
problem, while the secondary data through literature
search or documents related to citizen participation.
Furthermore, qualitative approach was used to
analyzethe data. Berg (Berg,2007, p. 3) claims,
"Qualitative research thus refers to the meaning,
concepts, definitions, characteristics, metaphors,
symbols, and description of things". The goal is to
describe the data in the form of a regular, systematic,
logical, and non-overlapping sentence in accordance
with the topic of the study to facilitate the
interpretation of the data. The analysis in this way
also aims to delve deeply and selectively descriptive
data from informants.
Furthermore, by descriptive method the authors
will describe thoroughly the observed phenomena
related to citizen participation in the implementation
of the Village Fund policy. While the units of
analyzing this study are individuals: apparatus and
citizens - which are expected to provide as much
information and relevant data. While the informant
of this research is the key informant that is the
firstperson having information and becomes primary
data source which is determined based on certain
criteria.
Based on the approach and method used, the data
collection technique is done through literature study;
Participatory observation, according to Creswell,
(Creswell, 2012, p. 267) is also called Qualitative
Observation; and interviews which are open to
unstructured interview methods. While the technique
of analysis using data analysis techniques developed
by Miler and Huberman (Miler and Huberman,
1992) are data reduction, data presentation, and
drawing conclusion or verification (Basrowi-
Suwardi, 2008, p. 209).