Proceedings of the International Conference on Democracy, Accountability and Governance (ICODAG 2017)

Village Democracy: The Deliberations of Voting

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Zaini Ali
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Zaini Ali
Available Online November 2017.
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10.2991/icodag-17.2017.67How to use a DOI?
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Democracy, Deliberation, and Voting
Abstract

The lowest governmental units as at once the spearhead of community service, the village was Soko guru first and foremost the birth of democracy in Indonesia. The position of the village as a community can be viewed from two angles, that is, as a gathering place for the community to resolve the issue in its own way of life, then the village as a bureaucratic machine in serving the interests of the Government in it. First, the point of view of the village as a community institution solving consensus based on the principles of, by and for themselves through deliberation. This deal was born of political institution through a Village on the island of Java, called the "village of Rembug", while in Sumatra, such as in West Sumatra is called "the rope Tigo Sapilin" (the fusion of three elements, namely; Governments, scholars and leaders of Customs), as a parliamentary institution in the village that the implementation is done by the Government of the village. The dynamic state of the village like this goes up with each passing regime the old order to the new order regime. In West Sumatra, agreement pattern of the three leaders of the Villages (Nagari) has many national leaders, you name it, Imam Bonjol, Agus Salim, Tan Malaka, Sutan Syahrir Muhammad Hatta, Mohammad Nasir, Hamka and others. The second point of view, see the village as a bureaucratic machinery which enabled serves the interests of the Government on it, and it will last until the inception of LAW number 6 Year 2014 of the village. Pattern making in the village in the deliberation room or give the most votes. The fact showed almost all legal products in the village is done with the most votes (voice vote). Even APBDes like village rule approval is so urgent and strategic for the people's interests above discussed enough approved by Chairman of the BPD involves without BPD as the political institutions of the Parliament or the village. The loss of the principles of deliberation in the setting of policy in the village other than the Government does not want to know the character of the different Villages in Indonesia, as well as the village of an organism which can be seen as a set of policy and receive all of the above. No one resisted the Government policy openly, but secretly and massive there is resistance from the people of the village. Due to the application of the policy of the village as the bureaucracy serving the Government on it, the village can no longer prepare the prospective leader of the local level, regional national-populist let alone unless leaders, including leaders in the village, have to deal with law enforcement.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Democracy, Accountability and Governance (ICODAG 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2017
ISBN
10.2991/icodag-17.2017.67
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2352-5398
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10.2991/icodag-17.2017.67How to use a DOI?
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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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