Has Behavior of Village Governments Toward Village Fund Management Changed as Regulation Treatment Takes Place? (Evidence from North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia)
- DOI
- 10.2991/aicmar-18.2019.9How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- village fund; measure dimensions; management and usage; misappropriation
- Abstract
Since 2015 the Indonesian government had started Village Fund (VF) program to increase villagers’ purchasing power and welfare, build infrastructure and increase employment. However, there was evidence that the results of the programs were not as expected. Instead, there were many management and accountability problems found in the program. This study investigates the factors that can possibly explain the problems using four dimensions, namely, Financial Management, Village Infra-structure, Society Empowerment, and Misappropriation. Using a survey, we choose the officers from fifteen villages in North Sulawesi Province. Using score indexing, we study changes in behaviors of village officers toward these dimensions due to a treatment that we make. The treatment is to make the officers aware of the regulations required for VF management. We also examine how the change in the VF management leads to change in economic growth rate. The findings suggest that there is an improvement in the VF management after the treatment. Additionally, due to improvement in VF management, the villages can potentially experience economic growth rates of between 3.44% and 3.98% contributed solely by the VF program.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hizkia H.D. Tasik AU - Victor P.K. Lengkong PY - 2019/02 DA - 2019/02 TI - Has Behavior of Village Governments Toward Village Fund Management Changed as Regulation Treatment Takes Place? (Evidence from North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia) BT - Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Management Research (AICMaR 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 36 EP - 44 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aicmar-18.2019.9 DO - 10.2991/aicmar-18.2019.9 ID - Tasik2019/02 ER -