ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF THE VILLAGE DELIBERATIVE BODY IN TANI HARAPAN VILLAGE, LOA JANAN DISTRICT, KUTAI KARTANEGARA REGENCY

The Village Consultative Body (BPD) has several functions such as legislation, representation, planning, and supervision. The BPD has an important role in village development, including drafting village regulations together with the village head, accommodating and channeling community aspirations, supervising the performance of the village head, and ensuring that village development is in accordance with the needs and desires of the community, and runs in accordance with existing regulations. The purpose of the study was to determine the role, supporting, and inhibiting factors of the Performance of the BPD in Tani Harapan Village, Loa Janan District, Kutai Kartanegara Regency. Key informants and informants were 18 people consisting of the Village Head, Chairperson of the BPD, Village Secretary, Head of the Village Community Empowerment Division, Village Community Leaders, and Village Youth Leaders. Data collection techniques consisted of fieldwork research (observation, interviews, and documentation), and research libraries. Data analysis used qualitative descriptive consisting of data collection, reduction, and presentation, as well as decision-making and verification. The results of the study indicate that the BPD of Tani Harapan Village has carried out its role well as supervision in development, village head performance, village financial management, accommodating and channeling residents' aspirations, and submitting draft village regulations. The supporting factors are that its members have high school education and insight, there is support for village residents' participation, the availability of infrastructure such as offices; the existence of implementing instructions and technical instructions in carrying out their duties; and the creation of cooperation between BPD members and village officials; and the inhibiting factors are weak coordination between village officials in absorbing villagers' aspirations, sometimes personal and hamlet egos arise, lack of enthusiasm because there is no honorarium fund, lack of synchronization of its members with the village government apparatus in terms of village development budget; and there are no comparative studies to other areas.