Building Village Procedure Strong Community with Good Citizen Principles following the Way of Democracy Village committee

Abstract

For this study, the author applied analytical conclusion process which refers to related theories, documents and researches from literature review. This conclusion is to explain “the procedure of making strong village-community by applying good citizen and democratic way of village commission. The author studied in the area of Siaw Sub-District Posisuwan District Sisaket Province”. The objectives of this research are 1) to study for improving the procedure of making strong village-community by applying good citizen and democratic way of village commission; and 2) to develop activities and strategies to be appropriate role model to make strong village-community by applying democratic way.

Results from this study

          This study is workshop study as shown in research methodology, Participatory  action  research. The author has studied the information following framework, and then, the author has made the conclusion and concluded the discovery as follow:

          The issue of study for improving the procedure of making strong village-community by applying good citizen and democratic way of village commission  consisted of community background learning, community building participation, conflict eliminating from election, art maintenance, and politic participation. These points were the studying to understand important character of Siaw Sub-District: community context, culture, belief, tradition, residents’ participation to build their community, and politic participation. We can see that the residents in this area have the basic idea of social development to build leader.

          Conflict eliminating from election showed that Siaw Community values the elder council. This council includes elders, nonagenarians, old men and philosopher. They have been having the meeting to discuss about tradition, culture and conflicts in their community– they also have former local leaders to be advisor. This council also plays in the role of choosing village headman and head of group of villages. They find the right people and vote for appropriate person who can work for community. The author can explain that the elder council has the important role to drive politic and local administration system in Siaw Sub-District. The elder council is also counted as one part of civil society which influences local politic system.

          Politic participation in this study, the author gathered data about political, thinking and belief development from the past up to present. The author can conclude that political culture of Siaw community is from power of participation– both social and politics; this community has high rank of political participation. The residents realize good citizen and democratic way which means they join political activities and realize the effect of government’s policy. The author found that there was the fighting to create the network of Nonyai Community Woods Protection after private organization got the concession in 1985.

          The strategy of building good citizen and democratic way should be step by step: start from changing behavior, creating self-reliance community, creating leader and network, creating good citizen, and creating democratic volunteers in villages to encourage democratic activities with rules which all members agreed to follow and without exploitation. The expression of personal freedom has to follow rules that does not encroach others’ freedom while having election.For election procedure participation, village commission and democratic volunteers in villages should have role to drive the election procedure following the laws. The residents must feel free to vote without any force to reach the real intention. In addition, village commission and democratic volunteers in villages can invite other networks to join the democratic activities such as educating the process of election, news network, election encouragement, and being constituency or operation assistant.

          Activities and strategies to be appropriate model for building strong villages – communities by applying good citizen and democratic way of village commission consisted of following model: 1) preparing for youth seed who is  interested in democratic way – this is community preparation; 2) democratic cuttings to educate community and build strong community, self-reliance community and democratic development activity; 3) making leaders and good citizen network to be sustainable developed community; and 4) being a part of big democratic forest which bear flowers and fruit such as the happening of happy political community.