Competencies in Public Service (Case study : Budget Management in Blimbing Village, District of Gudo, Jombang Regency, Indonesia)

Abstract

In an effort to the distribution of development and improving public services, the central government issued Law No. 6 of 2014 concerning Village. Villages will give a larger authority to manage their own, one of them is Village Budget management. the central government will give budget transfer about 100.000 USD per year for one village. But there were problems in its implementation. The village apparatuses have not had enough competencies in Village Budget Management. It occured in Blimbing Village. They submitted accountability report of Village Budget realization on March 29th, 2016. Officially they had to submit the accountability reports on the last January 2016. So, they delayed 2 months on submitting an acountability report. Blimbing village was the village with the longest overdue in submitting of accountability report of Village Budget in the district of Gudo year 2015. The purpose of this study is to describe competencies of village apparatuses in Villages Budget management at Blimbing Village, District of Gudo, Jombang Regency. The research method used was descriptive qualitative with case study research strategy. Then the technique of data collection used were observation, interviews and documentation. Furthermore, the technique of validity checking of the data used was triangulation method. Data analysis technique used were 6 stages of qualitative research based on data analysis approach consisted of managing and preparing data, reading the whole data, analyzing more details and recoding the data, applying the coding process, presenting the data, and interpreting data. Based on observation and analysis of data that have been interpreted by theories, the research can be inferred that the apparatus of Blimbing Village have not had enough competencies, especially in knowledge competencies and attitude competencies.

Keywords: Competencies in public service, local authonomy, Village Budget