Improving Public Welfare or Burdening the State: Indonesia's New Autonomous Region in Decentralization Era

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10.2991/icpm-16.2016.118How to use a DOI?

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Improving Public Welfare or Burdening the State: Indonesia's New Autonomous Region in Decentralization Era

Abstract

Since Indonesian Law No. 22 Year 1999 on Regional Government having been enacted, there are a massive regional expansions (also known as a "region splitting") in Indonesia. Within a decade (1999-2009) there are new 7 provinces, 164 regencies and 34 cities existed, bringing the total increase of 205 new autonomous regions. The evaluation result shows that not all goals of establishing a new autonomous region are reached. Supposedly the formation of new areas as a form of regions can improve people's welfare, accelerate an equitable distribution of development, improve the quality of public services, enhance the competitiveness of the region and establish good governance in the region. The development of new autonomous regions often does not reveal the phenomenon on purpose, but instead of forming a new dependency on the new autonomous regions to the central government. This fact leads to the mechanism of forming new autonomous regions reorganized by Law No. 23 of 2014.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Hardi Warsono
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TI  - Improving Public Welfare or Burdening the State: Indonesia's New Autonomous Region in Decentralization Era
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SN  - 2352-5428
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