Policy Formulation Based on Village Development Index (IDM) in East Java Province

The Ministry of Village published Ministerial Regulation (PERMENDES) No. 2 of 2016 regulation, on the subject of Building Village Index. The building village index is an index composite from the social resilience index, economic resilience index, and ecology resilience index. IDM can be used to measure the success of a village in carrying out village development. Status improvement of villages in the Regency/City of East Java is needed, subsequent to IDM results. The purpose of this research is to describe the condition of villages in regencies/cities in East Java based on the three IDM forming indices and to find out the East Java Government’s policy direction in increasing village potential. The research method used is qualitative descriptive with explanatory/naturalistic research. The result show that, in 2019, the majority of villages in the Regency/City Province East Java were developing villages and there were still two very disadvantaged villages. The result of the distribution of the resilience index shows that the social resilience index is the best distribution. It is necessary to have a strategy to achieve the overall development. The East Java Provincial Government provides a strategy for realizing development through village potential, these strategies include, Lumpang Bude, Bumdesa Clinic, Uncle Village, East Java Puspa, Empowered Village, Bank Mushroom Seeds, Sapa Village, and Simanis. Keywords: ecological resilience index, economic resilience index, social resilience index, village development index, village status