Supervising the Village Fund
Efforts to increase accountability for the use of village funds require true and active participation of the community in monitoring for the effectiveness of village funds to achieve the expected goals.
Siwi Nugraheni
Village funds are one of the important financial sources in developing rural areas. Until 2022, the government has disbursed village funds amounting to Rp 468 trillion (about US$30 billion). In 2023, the government plans to allocate Rp 70 trillion in village funds.
Since its launch in 2015, village funds have been used to build various infrastructure facilities, such as village roads, bridges, irrigation canals, clean-water facilities and reservoirs. The village funds are disbursed to reduce the number of poor people in rural areas. In 2015 there were 17.94 million people in rural areas who were categorized as poor. Data from the Statistics Indonesia (BPS) in March 2022 showed the number had fallen to 14.34 million people.