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In order to strengthen the regional institutions on fiscal decentralization, IRIS
presented a series of workshops in collaboration with LPEM - FEUI in Jakarta. The
Workshops are followed by a number of research projects done by the participants from
different regions in Indonesia. The role of DPRD (Regional Assembly) will be very
important, according to our point of view, in the implementation of law 22/1999. Beside
that, we also want to know the perspective of Government Officials (GO) including
members of DPRD, and NGOs, which consist of non-formal leaders, local business
leaders and informed academics, on the new law of decentralization.
What is the role of DPRD in the new law? Is there any ability of Regional Council
(Assembly) to implement the new law properly? What is the perspective of GO including
members of DPRD and NGO on the implementation of the law? These are our research
questions that we would like to answer in this study. Available information such as the
law, the government regulation, the regional regulation, and the issues currently
published in the national and local newspaper is used to answer the first and the second
research question. Primary data from 51 respondents of non-formal leaders, local
business leaders and in formed academics in West Sumatra Province and six regions
(Kabupaten and Kota) in West Sumatra is used to know the perspective of GO and
NGO. These regions are called as sample areas.
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