TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Director General of Community and Village of the Department of Interior Affairs, Tarmizi Abdul Karim, said that starting 2015, every village will receive a funding of Rp500 million. According to Tarmizi, the fund is a village budget which comes from the 2015 State-Budget Plan as much as Rp9.1 trillion that will be divided into 73,000 villages. With that amount, the range of numbers obtained is as much as Rp124 million. “Then added from the Village Fund Allocation around Rp400 million per village,” Tarmizi told reporters in the middle of a meeting in Grand Sahid Hotel on Wednesday, August 20.
To smoothen the village fund allocation, Tarmizi said, it requires a transition time for a three-year preparation management. The Ministry, he added, has monitored the allocation by training the fund management from a procedural aspect such as composing training modules.
Interior Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi said the allocation fund is used to prepare village institutions in managing the fund. “The first year’s allocation will be for training of financial responsibility,” Gamawan said.
The supervision of village fund management will be performed by tiered, starting from the central level. The supervision will prioritized in the district level due to the funding that will be kept there.
The Village Act is passed by the House of Representatives last year after going through a 7-year discussion process. This regulation manages the funding source for 73,000 villages coming from the central goverment donation and local village treasury. The amount will be 10 percent from the local State-Budget transfer.
TIKA PRIMANDARI