We begin this edition with the results of SMERU and LSP-WB‘s monitoring of the Village Fund (VF) and Village Fund Allocation (ADD) spending. Since 2015, SMERU carried out a three-year monitoring of ten villages in Sumatra, Java, and Nusa Tenggara. This is considered important because in 2016 the government disbursed 47 trilion rupiahs of VF, and two years later the figure rose almost 1.5-fold. In addition, the amount of ADD continued to increase.