Regional Dynamics in a Decentralized Indonesia

✍ Scribed by Hal Hill (editor)

• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 566
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic state. In 2001 it embarked on a “big bang” decentralization involving a major transfer of administrative, political and financial authority to its districts, now numbering more than 500. Together with the rapid transition from authoritarian to democratic rule in the late 1990s, this initiative has transformed the country’s political, social and business life. While national government is the major area of contestation, power has shifted irreversibly away from the centre. How this significantly increased regional autonomy works will have a crucial bearing on the future of the Indonesian nation-state. This volume features contributions by over 40 writers with deep expertise on Indonesia. The book provides a timely, comprehensive and analytical assessment of the country’s regional development dynamics in the post-decentralization environment. It explores historical, political and development patterns at the regional level; the relationship between decentralization and governance; local-level perspectives; migration, cities and connectivity; and the challenges confronting the peripheral regions of Aceh and Papua.

✦ Table of Contents

In memory of Dr Thee Kian Wie
Contents
Tables
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Map of Indonesia
1. An introduction to the issues
PART 1. Historical, economic, political and social patterns
2. Before the ‘big bang’: decentralization debates and practice in Indonesia, 1949–99
3. Indonesia’s decentralization: the rise of local identities and the survival of the nation-state
4. Hares and tortoises: regional development dynamics in Indonesia
5. Patterns of regional poverty in the new Indonesia
PART 2. Decentralization and governance
6. Twelve years of fiscal decentralization: a balance sheet
7. Local governance and development outcomes
8. Decentralization, governance and public service delivery
9. What determines the quality of subnational economic governance? Comparing Indonesia and Vietnam
PART 3. Local-level perspectives
10. Dilemmas of participation: the National Community Empowerment Program
11. Governing fragile ecologies: a perspective on forest and land-based development in the regions
12. Explaining regional heterogeneity of poverty: evidence from a decentralized Indonesia
PART 4. Migration, cities and connectivity
13. Migration patterns: people on the move
14. Regional labour markets in 2002–12: limited convergence but integration nonetheless
15. The dynamics of Jabodetabek development: the challenge of urban governance
16. Challenges of implementing logistics reform in Indonesia
PART 5. Challenges for Indonesia’s periphery
17. The political impact of carving up Papua
18. Development in Papua after special autonomy
19. Special autonomy, predatory peace and the resolution of the Aceh conflict
20. Aceh’s economy: prospects for revival after disaster and war
Author index
Subject index