The Possibility of Village Development: Village Regulation Formulation and Its Challenges

Abstract

The new constitutionalism is giving the village new stance within Indonesia state relation. This is creating the new relation between the state and village and open wide possibility for village development. As one of the authority of the village, the authority for the formulation the village regulation maybe the key to open those possibility. Thus, The need for good regulations is very urgent in this new development since village regulation is become the foundation of village autonomy. Within the analysis above, this research test the possibility of the development through the formulation of the village regulation on two village in Lampung namely Way Empulau Ulu di West Lampung and Tanjung Setia Village in West Coast. In other side, government has enacted many regulations to govern the management of village and has made possibility to halt the development of village. This is based on the assumption that more regulation means more barrier for village formulation as Indonesia is using the model of hierarchy of law. This paper found that village regulation formulation success is depend on the political will of the people and the collaboration with legal drafter is needed to achieve the goal of village development using the formulation of village regulation.