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In the three years since the implementation of the Village Law, there is yet to be a single national reference for measuring the development of Indonesia’s more than 74,000 villages. The National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) is using a ‘Village Development Index’ (Indeks Pembangunan Desa, IPD) that categorises villages into less developed, developing, and developed.
As reported in the December 2016 Update (link), a number KSI partners have established a Forum Kajian Desa (FKD, Village Research Forum) to improve the quality of research on village development and encourage interaction between policy makers and knowledge producers. In January, the Forum continued with a series of knowledge sharing events, including Sajogyo’s FGD on inter-village and rural development (pembangunan kawasan perdesaan) study; IRE’s research on village democratization; and Kemenko PMK in developing initial ideas for the instrument on monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of Law no 6/2014 on Villages.
Over the past year, KSI has supported knowledge communities on village development to address the lack of interaction between policy makers and knowledge producers–one of the systemic barriers of the knowledge sector.