By: Petrus Maure, S. Kom

Human resource is the key to realize a regional development plan properly. The management is applied through a government system. Each rural area has very diverse and potential resources to support the prosperity of each village. Many things occur as obstacles in the utilization and management of every existing natural potency to achieve village autonomy. For the sake of equitable development from upstream to downstream, the central government held a village fund program of 72 trillion, with various budget utilization schemes according to the superior potential of each village.

During this period, the central government actively promotes the Village SDGs system in the village development system. It was initiated by the United Nations for all village communities that should become beneficiaries and no one is left behind. The development progress will not stop in just one generation but will continue from generation to generation.

The main points of the Village SDGs according to A. Halim Iskandar are, "Realizing a village without poverty, without hunger, decent clean water, and sanitation, clean and renewable energy, infrastructure and innovation according to needs, healthy and prosperous citizens, receiving a quality education, women participation, an equitable economic growth, environmentally friendly consumption, and production, living in decent and comfortable settlements, respond to climate change, care for the marine and land environment, having peace and justice, and partnership to build villages”.

Refer to the discussion theme on Sunday, August 29, 2021, about systems and resources in the village, which coincided with the 6th semester Student Learning and Community Service Activities (KBPM) and internships and Field Work Practice (PKL) of 4th-semester students of the Faculty of Chemistry and Agriculture, Tribuana University. (UNTRIB), we opened a space to discuss the duties and responsibilities of young people to develop Indonesia through villages.

As a form of concern and synergy, this discussion involved the Northeast Alor regional organization – Northeast  Alor Student Harmony (KEMILAU) and the Young Observer of Village Economics, Samuel Atama, as resource person and igniter for the discussion. There is a tutoring group of Yusuf Tande and Church Youth, Alonso Tande, and KBPM students, internship participants at Air Mancur Village.

In the opening of the discussion, Marsel Maure as a young activist and chairman of KEMILAU emphasized "the responsibilities of campus is carrying out research and community development functions". As a form of seriousness from the discussion, he hoped that there will be recommendation points, that will be forwarded to UNTRIB in this case BEM (Student Executive Body) and BAPELITBANG (research & development).

Samuel Atama reviewed a lot about "the village development system through the principle of the developing a village and village develop". This discussion became interesting because of the debate in its implementation, where the residents through the existing structure have full authority to carry out the development of their village. There is a large amount of capital, not only the assets and potencies in the village but also the abundant village funds”

The concept of developing a village is an old concept, the village is considered only as an object. During that time, village development was determined by the structure above the village, namely district, regency, and province. The village, as the owner of sovereignty only acts as a spectator. As a result, village development often did not match the needs, and most of them missed the target

As an additional explanation, Samuel questioned the role of the campus that should exist in the efforts to develop an analytical method that can be used as a guide to determine what action should be taken in the production and distribution of SME (Small Medium Enterprise) creative products of the village.

The last point of the discussion, in this case, students, creative working groups, or NGO activists who mobilize, work on, and control development, must be more aggressive in making changes so that development goals can be achieved effectively and efficiently. ***