Abstract:
This study investigates the association of political connection and the amount of transfer fund at village level in Indonesia. Measure of political connection is approached by comparing the similarity of the top five wining parties at village level and national level. This study fund that transfer fund from district, province and national level to the village level in 2005, 2011, and 2014 were significantly large as the more similar the top five winning parties between those at the village and national level in the 2004 election. Election result of 2009 is not surveyed ether in the 2008 and 2011 surveys of PODES. Data of election results are only available in PODES 2005. This study present the amount of transfer fund in 2008 as we have limitation on this data.
