The district is one of the elements of the regencies/cities that implement government affairs that are part of the authorities of the region, and also perform assistive tasks. The district is regulated in detail by Government Regulation No. 19 of 2008 concerning the District. However, after the enactment of Law No. 23 of 2014 on …
Law No. 6 of 2014 on Villages (Village Law) states that one purpose of the regulation of the village is to improve public services for the village community. This logic can be understood by looking at the formulation of the norms in the Village Law that generally give broad autonomy to the village to organize …
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Village, according to Law No. 6 of 2014 (Village Law), is a community that has the authority to regulate its own affairs based on the function of self-governing community. Based on this concept, the implementation of the government at the village level is done independently by the village community. The full authority for self-government opens the opportunity for the Village Government (Pemdes) to implement …
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By Ahmad Romdoni * PATTIRO organized the Local Governance Forum [i] (LGF) on Guarding the Implementation of the Village Law Series on Wednesday, 7 September 2016 in Jakarta with the theme “Strengthening Village-Owned Enterprises (BUM Desa) to Strengthen the Rural Economy”. Present at the meeting was the village research team from PATTIRO, activists of various …
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By: Karina Sari * PATTIRO held a meeting with experts to discuss PATTIRO’s findings on the issue of indigenous villages and find solutions to overcome those problems, on Tuesday, 6 September 2016, in Jakarta. Attending the meeting were the PATTIRO village research team village and several experts on indigenous villages such as Indonesia University Sociology …
Jakarta, 28 January 2016 – Indonesia is facing complicated nutrition problems. The 2013 Basic Health Research data shows that the number of infants weighing less prevalence is at 19.6%. While on the other hand, the number of obese children remains high, at 18.8%. This obesity problem also happens to the teenagers and the adults. PATTIRO …
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Jakarta, 15 January 2016 – President Joko Widodo ordered the village governments to use the 2016 village fund disbursed by the central government only for infrastructure development[i]. PATTIRO regards the president’s statement as something that has harm villages’ democratic spirit. “The decision has violated the Village Law mandate which has provided more democratic spaces to …
The enactment of Law Number 6 Year 2014 on Village is expected to bring significant change in village governance and development. Because of the existence of this Law, the village government and its people have more space and opportunity to develop their village in accordance with their needs as stated in the Village Medium Term …
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Jakarta – PATTIRO finds out that there are still many district governments who are yet to implement the Village Law mandate to disburse at least 80% of village funds at the second stage of its disbursement in last August. Even in the early October, in eastern Indonesia, there are many villages who received only 60% of …
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Annotation is a record made to explain, comment on, or criticize laws or regulations, as well as to reveal the facts of how certain laws established by the Parliament and the government and other related parties, as well as the facts of how to properly interpreted and applied the laws. PATTIRO creates this annotation of Village Law to documenting …
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JAKARTA – The government’s promise to disburse the first phase of village funds in the second week of April, 2015 has not been fully realized. Data from the Ministry of Finance shows, as of April 20, 2015, only 36 out of 434 regencies/cities throughout Indonesia have met the requirements for receiving village funds, or only …
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Jakarta, 21 April 2015 – The government’s promise to disburse the first phase of village funds in the second week of April 2015 has not been fully realized. Data from the Ministry of Finance shows that as of April 20 2015, only 36 out of 434 districts/cities throughout Indonesia had met the requirements for receiving village …
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