Growth of Government Urban-Village Development In Indonesia

One of the government units in the governance system in Indonesia is the Village Government. Urban Village is one of the government entities in Indonesia. In the development of the village government experienced changes in line with the change of law on local government in Indonesia. The focus of this paper only discusses and analyzes the existence of the municipal government from 4 (four) laws on local government and the latest law on village governance, namely Law Number 5 Year 1979 on Villages separated by Number 5 of 1974 on Principal Public Government in the Region, Law Number 22 Year 1999 on Regional Government, Law Number 32 Year 2004 regarding Regional Government and the latest Law Number 23 Year 2014 on Regional Government, In Law Number 5 Year 1979 puts Urban village as a region and is the lowest government directly under subdistrict head. In Law Number 22 Year 1999 place the urban village as the work area of urban village head as a regional apparatus under subdistrict head. In Law Number 32 Year 2004 place the urban village as a Regional Device. Whereas in Law Number 23 Year 2014 place the urban village as a subdistrict device, so the consequence urban village head is no longer responsible to the Regent / Mayor but will be directly responsible to the District Head. This research uses literature study method. So it can be concluded that there are substantial changes in urban village government institutions in line with the change of Law on Regional Government and Law on Village Government in Indonesia