Village Fund and Improvement of Village Status and Community Welfare

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Risyanto, Syarwani Canon, Rosman Ilato, Sastro Mustapa Wantu, Yanti Aneta

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Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages mandates the allocation of Village Funds sourced from the APBN, to accelerate village development. This study aims to determine and analyze the changing conditions between before and after the Village Fund management policy, namely in 2014 (before the Village Fund) and 2018 (after the Village Fund) in Jambi Province. These changes are related to Village Status, as well as Community Welfare. The method used is a quantitative approach with comparative analysis, through the statistical average difference test, namely Wilcoxon and Man Whitney. The unit of analysis is 1,388 villages spread over 10 regencies/cities in Jambi Province. The main data sources are the results of the Village Potential data collection (Podes) and the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS). Through the average difference test, the following results were obtained: (1) there has been a positive change or increase in Village Status from an underdeveloped village to a developing village, and there has been a positive change or an increase in village status from a developing village to an independent village, and (2) There has been an increase in Community Welfare between 2014 and 2018. Seeing these findings, it is highly recommended that the Village Fund management policy, which has been started since 2015 until now, is continued with more refined implementation. To further maximize output, through the implementation of the Village Fund management policy in the future, the researcher suggests adding other supporting factors, namely: increasing the education of HR managers, increasing Assistance in implementation, and increasing continuous supervision.

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