Village Government Leadership Towards Optimizing Society Participation in Development Planning

This research is to find out the leadership of the village government and to find out society participation in development planning in Pattondon Salu Village, Maiwa District, Enrekang Regency. The hypothesis of this study is that village government leadership has a significant effect on optimizing society participation in development planning. The location of this research in Pattondon Salu Village, Maiwa District, Enrekang Regency. The population in this study is 133 Families (KK). The sampling technique uses incidental sampling with the Slovin formula. The sample in this study is 100 Families (KK). The techniques of collecting data use observation, questionnaires, documentation, and interviews. Quantitative data analysis techniques using frequency tabulation analysis methods and simple regression analysis using the SPSS 16.0 for Windows program. This results shows that, 1) Village government leadership is categorized in the good criteria with an average percentage of 63.95%, 2) Society participation in development planning categorized as a fairly good with an average percentage of 58.95%. In addition, there is a strong influence between village government leadership and the optimization of society participation in development planning. Keywords— Development Planning; Leadership; Society Participation