Village Head in NTT Rejects Proposed 9-Year Term of Office

Carlens Horison Bising, the village head of Letbaun Village in East Nusa Tenggara's Semau District and Kupang Regency, rejected the idea to extend the position's tenure from six to nine years. According to Carlens, the villages are aware of the problem with the village head's position having a 9-year term limit.

Since the problem first arose, a number of village helpers have run outright campaigns to back particular political parties. "I strongly disagree with the proposed 9-year term of office as the head of a village that has only been trusted for one year.

The regional head and president have only been in office for five years, which is why this is being called greed. The village chief has been given six years to himself in the meantime.

What other factors would you like to raise to 9 years?. After all, there was a significant amount of corruption in just six years.

There was obvious nepotism. He stated in Kupang on Monday (23/13) that the community's misery was made even worse by the rupture in social relations caused by the pilkades (village head election).

Carlens asserts that a village head can develop his village for five years with the help of available village funds. in addition to the six-year span.

It's difficult to comprehend that when something unexpected occurs and a village head resigns in the first or second year, he must continue serving as an ASN from the sub-district for the remaining 8 or 7 years. For the welfare of the village, it is very challenging to manage the system for managing village funds as well as the distribution of village funds.

Additionally, there are still funds available from the central government, the province, and the regency. "The village will suffer a setback for a very long time, namely 9 years, if in the Pilkades process something unexpected happens and the wrong person is elected," he said.

Thus, 5 years plus 1 year for the village head is what Carlens considers to be the ideal period. He asserted that the regulations governing village-owned enterprises (BUMDes), on the other hand, require modification.

Due to the uncertainty surrounding the management's salaries, the majority of BUMDes are currently in suspended animation. As a result, the managed funds are actually exhausted for operational needs.

Because there are no assurances or legally binding regulations, the borrower actually does not even return it. Additionally read: South Sulawesi Uses TMC to Prevent Extreme Rain on the Land The former journalist claimed that many village developments were unnecessary or fell short of needs.

He gave an illustration, saying that even though there is no water network or water source many kilometers away, the purchase of reservoirs or profil tanks is what is typically done. "This is comparable to installing an electric meter in a location without a network of electricity.

Also, there are numerous other programs that do nothing more than spend money, he added. Carlens stated that these assistants are probably a group of political parties in regards to the campaigns run by village assistants for specific political parties.

They openly run campaigns on social media. Political parties as well as political party leaders.

We're puzzled by this. Because, aside from politics, they have to resign from their positions as village assistants in order to become election organizers at the village and sub-district levels.

There ought to be ethics, he said. These two issues are actually a part of a clandestine effort to aid specific political parties running in the 2024 election.

In light of this, he thinks that the Village Law revision issue is really just a political ploy for the 2024 election. "For instance, the topic of the position of head in this nine-year-old village was purposefully repeated by a small number of village heads as if this were a breath of fresh air.

However, some of the village heads are not in favor of it. They don't generalize for the interests of all village heads; rather, they do so for their own," Carlens said.

For this reason, he requested that the issue of the village head's nine-year term of office not be raised by the central government and the Indonesian Parliament. When only Javanese and Sumatran demonstrators took part, it was assumed that all other provinces had concurred, the man said.

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For the welfare of the village, it is very challenging to manage the system for managing village funds as well as the distribution of village funds.