<![CDATA[This study examines the deconstruction of accountability in the Parepare City Community Care Movement, an educational volunteer community operating in remote areas of South Sulawesi. The study is motivated by the limitations of formal accountability models in explaining accountability practices in grassroots volunteer movements that work through relationships of trust, presence, care, and impact stories rather than formal reporting structures. A qualitative case study approach was employed with semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with thirteen informants consisting of founders, administrators, active volunteers, and community leaders. Thematic analysis with a deconstructive orientation was used to read tensions, oppositions, and traces of meaning in informant narratives. The results reveal that accountability in the Parepare City Community Care Movement is practiced through simple reports as traces of trust, narrative-visual accountability through photos, videos, and impact stories that disrupt the dominance of numbers, beneficiary-centered accountability where children and remote communities become the ethical center of responsibility, and remote children as moral auditors whose expectations create ethical pressure shaping volunteer behavior. The study demonstrates that accountability in volunteer movements is not the absence of formalities but minimal formalities linked to strong social relations, where the center of accountability shifts from reports to relationships. The findings contribute to non-profit accountability literature by offering the concept of community-based relational accountability, showing that accountability is not only the obligation to provide accounts but also the willingness to answer the calls of other parties as a promise, presence, and sustainability of relationships.]]>
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