THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL ORGANIZATION FUNCTION FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA

Abstract

Rural economic development as a lergest part of agricultural development which could be\ud developed as an autonomous unit of government in rural area. Rural development could be done\ud by self-supporting through the strenghthening of local organization function with a set of norms\ud and supported by available resources.\ud Data used in this paper was the result of the research related to the strengthening of local\ud institutions that was carried out in the Martaya Village, West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia.\ud Research results shown that development of irrigation infrastructure, farmer group, and\ud rice mill business could be done based on farmer needs. Farmer group members were dominated\ud by from Bali as self-support transmigration. The development of farmer group encouraged\ud village roads and village regulations that support the government of autonomous village. The\ud community development activities could be done by local organization and supporting the village\ud development planning and sustainable agricultural development.\ud Local organizations could be functioned in the activities of joint discussion meeting\ud (Musrenbang) in the village level which was one of the stages in the system of national\ud development planning.\ud Key words: local community organization, farmer group sthrenthening, agricultural and rural\ud infrastructure development