Restorative justice approach in village fund corruption in Pamekasan Regency

Abstract

Village fund is provided by the central government to support the development of infrastructure, people empowerment, and public service in each village in Indonesia. However, in practice, there have been misuses in the management of village funds that have led to corruption. At least hundreds of suspects, including village heads and officials, have been arrested for corruption of village funds. Consequently, the operation of the village government and its development has stalled. A special approach from the concept of restorative justice is needed to resolve the problem. This research was conducted to explore the use of the restorative justice concept approach in resolving village fund corruption cases. This research applies juridical-empirical research method and sociological juridical approach. The types of data used were primary and secondary data. Primary data was obtained from respondents' information including experts through interviews. Meanwhile, secondary data was obtained from documents of related laws and regulations, scientific journals, and others. The research location was in Pamekasan Regency, Madura Island, East Java Province. The results of this research are expected to illustrate the ideal concept of the restorative justice approach and how it can be used to identify case characteristics in handling corruption of village funds. In the future, this research is expected to generally prevent other acts of manipulation and village funds can be optimized for village development.