: The Management of Village Fund Allocation in Empowering The Society (Study in Deket Kulon Village Deket Subdistrict Lamongan City). Village fund allocation is a fund of financial balancing in central and region which is received by a regency or city. In which the distribution for every village is divided proportionally, it is at least 10 % (ten percent). Village fund allocation aims to organize the village government and empower the society. This research uses qualitative method by applying descriptive approach. The result of this research shows that the management of village fund allocation is in normative and administrative managed well, but it has not substantially reached the real purposed of empowerment yet. Meanwhile, some stakeholders haven't done their works in maximal effort as well, it is only the chief of the village as the team of manager that dominates the management of village fund allocation. Paternalistic culture of the villager causes them to be apathetic and to trust fully to the chief of the village towards the management of village fund allocation, and domination of subdistrict party in arranging the accountability report that causes the society less independent
