The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Budget Changes and Krama Behavior in the Customary Village Government

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Budget Changes and Krama Behavior

in the Customary Village Government

By:

I Ketut Yadnyana

Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University

Since the announcement of Covid-19 as a National Disaster by President Joko Widodo, there has been a change in expenditure budgets at the Central, Regional and Customary Village Government. Based on the Local Regulations of the Province of Bali No. 4 of 2019, the Customary Village Government is required to make a revenue and expenditure budget for a one year period. Customary Village Revenue and Expenditure Budget, includes: a. revenue section; b. expenditures section; and c. Customary village financing. The expenditures section includes: a. routine expenditures; and b. program expenditures.

            In the implementation of COVID-19 prevention a lot of money is needed to purchase facilities and infrastructure. Related to these expenditures, each Customary Village Government makes changes to the revenue and expenditure budget, hereinafter referred to as Changes to the Annual Work Plan (RKT). In the modification RKT, has been budgeted for a village-based COVID-19 countermeasure program for Customary Village was Rp 150,000,000. So the total budget for COVID-19 countermeasures in 1493 of the Customary Village Government of Bali's amounted more or less Rp 224 trillion. With this change of RKT, many programs of Customary Village Government cannot be implemented this year. Programs that are postponed for implementation such as: a. Establishment and development of the Baga Utsaha Padruwen Customary Village (BUPDA) and Labda Pacingkreman Village (LPD); b. The activities of exploring and fostering the art of guardians, bebali art and traditional arts in the Traditional Village and so on.

            Prevention of Customary village-based Covid-19 involves Krama Adat, Krama Tamiu and Tamiu, which are members of the Banjar Adat community, Adat Village, Paiketan Pamangku; b. Paiketan Serati; c. Paiketan Wredha; d. Pacalang; e. Yowana Desa Adat; f. Paiketan Krama Wife of Customary Village; g. Pasraman; and h. Sekaa and other Customary Institutions. Prajuru Adat Village Government has made a pararem on COVID-19 Prevention and Control Arrangement in Wewidangan Adat Village. This arrangement is intended to provide guidance to Prajuru, COVID-19 Prevention Mutual Assistance Task Force, Krama Adat Village, Krama Tamiu, and Tamiu in implementing the prevention and control of COVID-19. To expedite the termination of covid-19 customary manners and other karma made a joint agreement to prevent the transmission of Covid-19. With this mutual agreement, it is expected that Krama Adat, Krama Tamiu and Tamiu Villages, comply with health protocols to prevention the COVID-19. They mingled with each other, reminding each other how dangerous the corona virus is, therefore good cooperation between them is needed. An interesting thing found in traditional village government is the mutual cooperation tradition which is social capital, where traditional manners, tamiu and tamiu manners which are relatively well-established in socio-economics generally have the nature and are accustomed to doing the habit of doing social philanthropic activities by donating packaged of rice or other foods to misfortune that was affected by the COVID-19.

Because cases related to COVID-19 continue to increase and cannot be controlled, a new discourse to come to terms with COVID-19 is known as New Normal. In an article the author did not mention, New normal is actually back to normal, but yesterday's life was abnormal. New Normal is the destruction of an abnormality and the return of a normal life. Why is that?. The answer is simple, when we buy coffee at Starbucks at a price of Rp. 70,000, - and if calculated the basic price of the coffee is only Rp. 20,000, - the remaining Rp. 50,000 to buy symbols or prestige. The question is : do we still need things that are unreal today.

New normal today which is being discussed by the Government is a new order system of life. Every person traveling outside the house is required to wear a mask, keep a distance, consume nutritious food, do a  healthy lifestyle and wash hands as often as possible. Are there any lessons that we can contemplate to live a life going forward? Clean and healthy lifestyle (PHBS) is not only certain families that can live it like a family doctor for example, we as traditional manners, tamiu manners and tamiu can implement such patterns that will have an impact on health. To stay healthy we should exercise every day, yesterday we used a lot of time to relax at Starbucks or at the Cafe we change to exercise. The money we used yesterday to buy coffee at Starbucks is now shifting to buying nutritious food. Let us return to the real normal life.