COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN IMPLEMENTING THE VILLAGE FUND ALLOCATION PROGRAM: EVIDENCE FROM BANDUNG REGENCY, INDONESIA
Community participation is a vital tool for sustainable community development which must be encouraged in all the stages of community development process, namely needs identification, community development planning, project implementation, lower community welfare and increasing levels of poverty in Indonesia with the largest proportion of the population living in the countryside. In Bandung Regency itself, reducing the poverty rate is one of the Village Fund Allocation management programs in addition to the steady income needs of the village head and village officials. The Village Fund Allocation Program is used mostly for physical activities in an effort to improve people's welfare. The purpose of this study was to determine community participation in the implementation of the ADD program in Bandung Regency. The research method uses a descriptive qualitative analysis with informants from the Regent of Bandung, Members of the DPRD Kab. Bandung, village heads and village officials in nine villages and communities. Some of the villages that became the locus of research were Margahayu Tengah Village, Sayati Village, Cipelah Village, Indragiri Village, Padamukti Village, Bojongsalam Village, Cinunuk Village, Ganjar Sabar Village, and Mekarsari Village. The results of the study stated that the Village Communities in Bandung Regency took a big initiative to contribute to the implementation of the ADD program. Not only in planning, implementing and supervising, receiving benefits and evaluating the ADD program, but what is more important is the awareness of the community to be involved in developing villages is a solution to advancing village development.
Community Participation, ADD Program, Indonesia