VILLAGE VS TECHNOLOGY: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGY-BASED VILLAGES GOVERNMENT SYSTEM IN BENGKALIS REGENCY, RIAU PROVINCE

Abstract

The development of technology and information facilitates make human activities easier and more efficient. Included in the management of government organizations, started a lot of application of technology. The Government of Indonesia, through the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform and the Ministry of Communication and Information, has formed a team to accelerate the implementation of the Electronic-Based Government System not only at the level of the national government until the village government. The main target is the empowerment of the village government through a technology-based village government system. By making an application for the village government system, which includes e Budget Base ePerformance (ePlanning, eBudgeting, eProcurement, eMoney, eAudit). One of the areas that are intensely doing this, is the Bengkalis Regency Government, through the implementation of the Broadband Village program from the Ministry of Communication and Information. So now, almost all villages in Bengkalis Regency already have village websites. The interesting question is does the village have to understand technology? Does the village have to implement a technology-based government system? Does the state forget that the village and its community have a Self Governing Community?. which is long before the electronic village-based government system exists and develops. This will be answered by using discourse analysis. Because discourse believes that power relations in society influence and shape ways, how knowledge is created. The discourse in this paper is the implementation of a Technology-Based Government System, which is believed to be a tool that forms power relations in society through processes of defining, isolating, justifying. This paper then tries to express the state power represented in its efforts to implement a technology-based village government system.

Keyword : technology-based village government system