The provisions regarding traditional villages in the Village Law bring new hope for the recognition of indigenous communities in Indonesia. However, in its implementation, based on research on the determination of traditional villages in Siak Regency, Riau, it still faces various challenges, including the absence of regulations in changing the status of villages to traditional villages, the absence of supervision from the provincial or central government, and the simplification of the process of determining traditional villages to in administrative processes that cannot yet represent the complexity of the social dynamics of society.
Village governance in Indonesia continues to experience changes, along with changes in eras or government regimes. This can be seen in the size of village authority, starting from the Dutch Colonial era, the Guided Democracy era (Old Order), the New Order, to the Reformation era. There are differences in village authority in each era, because each has a different approach in terms of granting authority to the village government.
