This study aims to analyze the influence of good cooperative governance (i.e., transparency,accountability, responsibility, independence, and fairness) on cooperative performance. Byusing a purposive sampling method this study ended-up with 32 cooperatives in Banyumas assamples with the questionnaires were distributed during August 7-13, 2015. The findings fromOLS regression show that all governance variables (i.e., transparency, accountability,responsibility, independence, and fairness) influence positively on cooperative performance.Therefore, with its limitation such as a small number of samples this study contributes to thebody of knowledge by providing empirical evidence on how governance variable influencespositively for cooperative performance in the lack of study on the issues of good governance forcooperatives.