TRANSFORMASI KELEMBAGAAN GUNA MEMPERKUAT EKONOMI RAKYAT DI PEDESAAN: SUATU KAJIAN ATAS KASUS DI KABUPATEN TABANAN, BALI

Abstract

Weak national economy is resulted from powerless rural economy, and the main cause is
fragile supporting institution. If rural economy is not transformed to strong one, the future of
rural economy will be insignificant. There are three pillars in rural community, namely local
or traditional communal institution, private sector, and public sector. The research aimed (1)
to study characteristics and performance of traditional institution historically, (2) to evaluate
programs related with public economy development in rural areas, (3) to assess the structure
of three pillars institution, (4) to find critical points of traditional institutional transform to
strengthen rural economy along with globalization and regional autonomy, and (5) to
formulate traditional institution transform model along with globalization and regional
autonomy. The Steps of Rural Economic Institutional Tranformation i.e. : communal society
era, destroyed communal society era, and new communal era. Some Types of Institutional
Tranformation. This research find that the institutional tranformation still in transition stage.
There are some type of traditional instiutional transformation, those are: replaced structure
with new structure, adding structure, new missions and objectives, and new norm system.
The Mode of Institutional Transformation. As explained in think frame, instituional change
is depend on three of power, i.e. government, market, and community. This research also
find that community power in market institution have replaced the government support, i.e. in
cooperatives organization (KUD). Deminishing of the government support gave positive
impact to KUD, where they are more creative and autonom in planning and action program.
Succesfull of development LPD due to the local leadership support and community
participation. This is fenomenon where the community principle use in market isntitution,
especially in credit program. Institutional transformation mode have five aspects, those are
agricultural instituional and organization, leadership, human resources, the value system, and
socio culture.