PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR THE VILLAGE ADMINISTRATION: SEM-BASED CROSS VALIDATION STUDY

This study develops the performance measures for the village administration, the lowest tier of government in Indonesia's government hierarchy. Data was collected through the survey, and two hundred nineteen useful questionnaires were analyzed. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted using SPSS. The results of EFA were then validated using confirmatory factor analysis by applying the SEM-PLS. Based on the literature review, we identified twenty-six performance measures. The result reveals four factors of village administration performance, i.e., society, learning and growth, internal monitoring mechanism, and external monitoring mechanism. This study has several limitations, particularly the limited sample and village administration in only one city. Future studies could use more samples and widen the number of villages by combining villages of several towns or regencies. Practically, this finding contributes to the village administration so that this performance measure can be implemented to measure its performance. These performance measures are balanced measures among village society, village administration personnel, village administration human resources, and internal and external monitoring agencies. This study also has social implications in that the village community can assess the village administration's performance as the performance measures have a societal dimension. This is the first study developing performance measure for village administration. However, previous studies failed to pay attention to performance measurement development for village administration, the lowest tier of government in Indonesia.