Thousands of village officials descended on the House of Representatives on Jan. 25, 2023 to voice their demands. This rally took place a week after the village heads from all over Indonesia also held a similar rally on Jan. 17, 2023. The public was initially uninterested until they learned that among the demands made by the village officials was an extension of their term of office. The Government has provided hundreds of trillions of rupiah for villages over the past few years but conditions in many villages in various regions are still far from good, so why did village officials feel entitled to make these demands?

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