Rural Development Planning for Local (Dayak) Community Villages in West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia

This study aims to determine and analyze Rural Development Planning, to determine and analyze the supporting and inhibiting factors of Rural Development Planning, and to determine and analyze efforts to overcome the inhibiting factors of Rural Development Planning for Local (Dayak) Community Villages in West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan. This study uses the Community-based Rural Development Planning Concept by Fernandes Simangunsong and Imelda Hutasoit (2021) as an analytic tool, which explains five aspects of rural development planning: strategic, democratic and participatory, political, bottom-up planning, and top-down planning. The method used was qualitative research, and the techniques to collect data included interviews, observation, and documentation. Informants for this study were selected using a purposive sampling technique, resulting in some leading figures and a number of leaders of agencies in the West Kutai Regency. The results showed that Rural Development Planning for (Dayak) Local Community Villages in West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan, has run properly, but with some obstacles in the process due to lack of facilities and infrastructures, low active participation from the community, and poor management information system. It is suggested that the West Kutai Regency government should always prepare a comprehensive and systematic development framework based on national-level regulations to ensure that the development objectives can be achieved from the village level, as the smallest part, to the regency/city level. Also, the West Kutai Regency government, through the Community and Village Empowerment Service, and related agencies should constantly collaborate to make strategic policies on rural planning to ensure proper rural planning documents in accordance with applicable regulations and continuously coordinate and do public awareness campaigns to increase community participation.