<![CDATA[This study aims to analyze the acceleration of village self-reliance through post-division governance innovation, drawing lessons from Mekar Sari Village, Bajubang District, Batanghari Regency, Jambi Province. This village, established through the administrative division of Batin Village in 2012, has achieved self-reliant village status based on the Developing Village Index (Indeks Desa Membangun, hereafter IDM), with an Economic Resilience Index of 0.733, a Social Resilience Index of 0.800, and an Ecological Resilience Index of 1.000. The study employs a qualitative case-study design. This article reports an interim, document-based stage of the research: the analysis presented is derived from secondary data village planning documents, IDM statistics, and prior literature while the primary data collection (observation, structured interviews with 21 purposively sampled informants, and documentation) is ongoing and will be incorporated into a subsequent, primary-data-informed version of this manuscript. Once complete, data will be analyzed using the Miles and Huberman interactive model. The study is grounded in institutional theory, social capital theory, and contemporary village self-reliance theory. Preliminary, hypothesis-generating findings from the secondary data reviewed suggest that the transformation of traditional social capital into bridging social capital, the strengthening of formal institutions following administrative division, and cross-sectoral synergy are associated with accelerated village self-reliance; these associations should be read as illustrative hypotheses pending verification through the primary interview data, not as established findings. Once validated, the study is intended to contribute theoretically to government studies and to serve as a practical reference for other newly divided villages and for policymakers engaged in Indonesia's decentralization agenda.]]>
