Factors Influencing Village Community Participation

Abstract

Abstract— Building Indonesia from the periphery by strengthening regions and villages became the government's vision with the issuance of Law No. 6 of 2014 concerning villages as a momentum for the revival of accelerated village development. This is the background of this research, and studies on village development are much echoed, especially in relation to community participation. Many factors drive community participation, and this research places the leadership of the head of the village and community culture as the driving forces. The research was carried out using questionnaire-based quantitative Study. The population of the research was members of the community registered as heads of families in Krebet Village, Bululawang District, Malang Regency. Based on data from BPS, as of December 2022, the number of family head in Krebet Village was 1443; they were employed as the study population. Meanwhile, the research sample was 304 heads of families calculated using calculator.net. The results showed that the village head's leadership and community culture had a positive and significant influence on community participation in village development. In other word, village head's leadership and community culture drove community participation in village development. The village head is a leaderand role model who can provide stimulus for residents to participate. Meanwhile, the culture of the community, which was very close to the habits of togetherness in village activities, facilitated village officials to mobilize community members to participate in village development