Fiscal decentralization in Indonesia: A comment on smoke and lewis |
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Authors: | Christoph Beier Gabriele Ferrazzi |
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Institution: | Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany;University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
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Abstract: | In World Development Smoke and Lewis (1996) describe a local government capability rating effort in Indonesia, and conclude that this approach to decentralization has great potential. Their analysis is bound to a limited set of central level actors, and thus reflects only part of the decentralization debate in Indonesia. Consequently the authors miss the roots of this purportedly “new” approach and overestimate its actual or possible effects. Smoke and Lewis have also not taken into account the importance of a vastly different approach to decentralization, the regional autonomy pilot program, which was inaugurated by the Indonesian Government in April 1995. Providing the broader context to the rating effort, we try to reveal its conceptual and practical limitations and point on the ambiguous role of the rating effort in the decentralization arena in Indonesia. |
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Keywords: | Southeast Asia Indonesia decentralization local government bureaucracy |
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