A study of Village Budget (APBDes) Utilization for Village Infrastructure Development at Wates

Abstract

The application of village budget (APBDes) on rural infrastructure development in Wates, including the planning based on social need has two models: community discussion and BPD (village representative) which is directly involved in APBDes planning. The realization of APBDes in rural infrastructure development has three models: first, infrastructures developed by rural district, second, infrastructures developed in RT (neighborhood association-the lowest administrative unit) area under village chief coordination and third, tertiary irrigation infrastructure by P3A (association of farmers using water). Since 2007-2008, the budget allocation is effectively used more or less 16% from the DAD (Village Allocation Budget) for infrastructure development. The DAD application shows that the improvement is lower compared to the higher DAD. Before and after the DAD enactment, infrastructure development has shown the same raising. Therefore, the raising of DAD in APBDes does not directly influence the raising of rural infrastructure development because of its little proportion and for it serves as a stimulus to the community self-supporting. The development of rural infrastructure in Wates is influenced by rural improvement program which is funded by central government, province government and district government, APBDes and community self-supporting fund. APBDes gives 5% support from the total needed for rural infrastructure development in Wates.