| dc.description.abstract | The emergence of Decentralization thorough out the world has provoked question
whether decentralization has played several important roles in fostering accountable and
responsible governance. Furthermore, as the concept of governance expanded, so did thinking
about the rationale, objectives, and forms of decentralization. Decentralization now
encompasses not only the transfer of power, authority, and responsibility within the
government, but also the sharing of authority and resources for shaping public policy within
society. One of the important reasons that drives Indonesian government to deliver a
democratic decentralization is political reasons. Over time there has been a remaining desire
to decentralized fudonesia. This relates to the growing intention to local development
throughout the country posed the need for political and administrative arrangement to meet
the country's diversity.
This paper will describe, explore the nature and the process of political devolution in the
context of local government in Indonesia, as well as assessing the political devolution
performance for enhancing the quality of health and education sectors in one of the case
study in two localities in Indonesia. This paper employ a model that combines Boex and
Yilmaz (2010) framework and the Local Governance Barometer (Laberge, Moretto, Narang,
& Wilde, 2010) framework for assessing Political devolution performances and its impact to
the health and education sectors in a decentralized mode of government. This paper focuses
on those issues, and on the opportunities for the local government to improve the most
important basic needs of the people- education and health sectors in Indonesia. | en_US |
