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• Title: Public Sector Reforms and Financial Transparency: Experiences from Indonesian Districts (Report)
• Author : Contemporary Southeast Asia
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 305 KB

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Public administration in Indonesia has changed dramatically since 2001. The country has gone through one of the fastest and most comprehensive devolution reforms ever seen. Managerial and financial responsibilities have been decentralized from central government, mostly to local government at the district level. There are now 473 districts, representing the third layer of a five-tier government hierarchy. The reforms followed the severe economic crisis that started in 1997 and the introduction of multi-party elections and democratic governance in 1999. Notwithstanding these developments, transparency remains very limited and there are clear signs of escalating corruption at the local government level. (2) There are strong tendencies to political capture, which further the interests of new local elites, (3) and continued democratic development is threatened by the people's lack of trust in the civil service and local political institutions. (4) Decentralization may have been a step towards "good governance" but mainly reflects a change in the national power balance, which gives increased chances for opportunistic and rent-seeking behaviour among bureaucrats and politicians at the local level. Enhanced levels of accountability and transparency should ideally improve the governance system, but state documents remain confidential, the political will to implement the Freedom of Information Act is lacking, and the government at various levels demonstrates little interest and ability in performance-oriented budgeting. (5) Mechanisms for controlling the bureaucracy are still very weak. Steps should be taken to develop less ambiguous accountability structures and improve systems of monitoring and evaluation. This article aims to help show the way forward.

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