The Role of Local Governments as Regulators and Facilitators in Social Accountability Programs in Increasing Business Capacity in West Java Province

Corporate Social Responsibility program is one of the corporation’s programs to give feedback to a local society where the corporation does its business, so the corporate can give some positive impacts for the local community. The Corporate Social Responsibility program can help West Java Local Government to realize the West Java community’s protection, empowerment, and prosperity. Active acts from West Java Local Government as regulator and facilitator are important so the program can make profits for all people. The government should be able to collaborate with all stakeholders so no one will get a disadvantage from this program. This Corporate Social Responsibility study is written detailed, systematically, and comprehensively based on rules that local government wrote while doing their role as regulator. This study also does research from West Java Local Government official documents and activities that have happened in society, like Local Medium-Term Development Plan documents and some research to Nagrog Village, as one of the role model villages for the Corporate Social Responsibility program in West Java. Based on the results of the study, it is known that West Java Local Government has executed the Corporate Social Responsibility program as a regulator in West Java well, with some notes for their role as facilitators that can be fixed and developed to make this program truly give impacts for communities. The government should also improve its partnerships with academics in the Corporate Social Responsibility program like their partnership with corporations and communities.