BUMDes dan Kepemilikan Warga: Membangun Skema Organisasi Partisipatoris

Abstract

BUMDes was established to move and accelerate rural economy. It aims to put together all the rural resources under the management of villagers itself in order to increase rural real income and reach self-sustainability. And yet, BUMDes which originally designed as a spearhead of rural economy mostly become inactive and underdeveloped due to the lack of public participation. BUMDes need to learn from the failures of practices of the previous rural economic institutions. Policy architecture that rests on top-down management has been proven impotent in rising rural economy. Instead, it becomes a new medium of capitalization for some rural elites over its resources. To be able to achieve sustainability and autonomy it will take material requirement in term of participation which supported by ownership. Rural people/villagers are entitled to own their rural resources. Therefore, building BUMDes needs to consider a widened ownership. This purpose can be institutionalized by building BUMDes inclusively. By adapting cooperatives model, villagers or rural people will be able to become member or owner of BUMDes.