Revitalizing Consensus Deliberation and Community-Based Integrity in Indonesian Village Governance

Muhammad Rifan Fadillah, Hilal Najmul Huda, Salsabila Khairunnisa Maryam, Musleh Herry

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This study examines how consensus-oriented deliberation is regulated in Indonesian village governance, whether the existing framework supports community-based integrity, and how it can be strengthened. It employs normative legal research using statutory and conceptual approaches to the 1945 Constitution, Law No. 6 of 2014 as amended by Law No. 3 of 2024, Minister of Villages Regulation No. 16 of 2019, and Minister of Home Affairs Regulation No. 20 of 2018. Primary legal provisions and recent peer-reviewed studies are analyzed through grammatical, systematic, and functional interpretation. The study identifies a layered framework distinguishing Village Deliberation (Musyawarah Desa) from Village Consultative Body meetings. While the law guarantees participation, information, and accountability, the annual financial accountability agenda remains weakly connected to Village Deliberation, and public deliberation does not confer the same formal voting role as representative bodies. A six-year planning reference in the ministerial regulation also diverges from the eight-year period established in 2024. The article proposes harmonized planning rules, recurring public accountability hearings, accessible financial disclosure, inclusive representation, documented responses to dissent, and a legally consistent procedure for deliberative deadlock. Its contribution is a rights-conscious and implementable framework linking consensus with continuous community oversight.


Keywords


Village deliberation Consensus Community-based integrity Village accountability Regulatory harmonization

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