Analysis of Leadership Style and Digital Transformation in Banyumas Villages

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10.2991/978-2-38476-236-1_62How to use a DOI?

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Leadership; Digital Transformation; Banyumas; Villages

Abstract

Villages are the smallest government unit in Indonesia that maintain the local traditional citizen in the rural area. The introduction of cellular telephone and internet technology are making villages digital transformation in this era cannot be avoided. This research will discuss the impact of digital transformation for village people and how the Chief of the Village could smoother the transitions through a good leadership. This is qualitative interpretive research. The sites are villages in Banyumas County in Central Java and Head of the Villages as the informants of this study. Data are collected in 2023 using Focus Group Discussion and Questionnaires. Data then analyzed using Miles and Huberman’s Data Reduction method. The results shows that Banyumas Village are based on farming with cultures that characterized as collective by Hofstede’s Culture classification. Hence the conditions are changing due to the massive of internet technology using handphones as the main gadgets. Chief of the Villages transformational leadership work well in managing digital transition in the villages. This type of leadership allows citizen to embrace with new technology while still maintain the origins villages’ collective cultures. However, the negative side of the technology such as the individualism as well as regulate the negative impact of the technology still become burden for some villages. This is due the village leadership is chosen democratically by their citizen, that giving unpopular regulation could make them loose their voters on the next election.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Adi Indrayanto
AU  - Wita Ramadhanti
AU  - Zuhdan Ali Hudaya
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/04/29
TI  - Analysis of Leadership Style and Digital Transformation in Banyumas Villages
BT  - Proceedings of the World Conference on Governance and Social Sciences (WCGSS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 586
EP  - 598
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-236-1_62
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-236-1_62
ID  - Indrayanto2024
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