Practice of Accountability

This study aims to describe the practice of accountability that are understood by the stakeholders, explain the practice of accountability in several dimensions of accountability and to reconstruct accountability concept within the framework of the local culture. This study used an interpretive approach, ethnographic methods and informants of the people and Church officials. Data analysis was performed with a description, interpretation and reconstruction. Result description and meaning on the spiritual dimension was found that the meaning of spiritual accountability is conducted entirely by people with carrying out religious activities, give offerings as an expression of his faith and chose calls consecrated life. On the dimension of leadership found form of leadership that puts the accountability of service form. But on the other hand there is the paradox of ambivalent tendencies of centralized management of organizations to secure the teaching of Christology and ignore the dimension that puts participation of members elements and the involvement of the people. Meanwhile, on the dimensions of ecclesiastical property management at every level in the organization of the Catholic Church indicates not maximized, giving rise to the practice of dishonesty in preparing the report.. This was caused by too much authority in the hands of the leaders of the Church organization and lack of role of the Board of Finance.. At the reconstruction stage the concept of accountability, reconstruction is done by placing the Church as a tongkonan, where members (toma'rapu) bonded inner and outer building as tongkonan Christ Church on the third dimension of accountability. The implication of this study is to confirm the results of previous research that the organization of the Catholic Church including the expressive organizations against the practice of accountability because of the domination of power by its leaders. On the other hand the reconstruction of the concept of accountability