| in the long term, this effort will ensure the sustainability of
kdp-induced practices, such as a community-driven approach to development, and will encourage local
governments to hand over increasingly larger portions of their authority and resources (especially budget)
to the village level. kdp's strategy involves:
review of regulations concerning village councils and other representative bodies. |
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responsive and accountable bpds will enhance responsiveness on the part
of formal leaders and stimulate involvement by villagers in public issues. several recent studies by goi
and indonesian universities support the view that the new village representative councils should be given
priority support.
support for the drafting and public monitoring of district regulations. legislative drafters at the dprd ii
level have inadequate technical skills, poor knowledge of the law and a lack of access to examples of
well-drafted legislation. as a result, perdas are often drafted vaguely or badly.
poor public access to perdas also hinders the capacity of the public to monitor local legislation and
ensure that perdas are not used by local government as a vehicle for promoting personal and partisan
interests. |
| goi efforts thus concentrate on:
a. there should be a distribution center to provide copies of local
regulations and other public information on policies and projects to promote greater monitoring
by the public of local regulations
b. improving the capacity of the technical staff of representative bodies to draft legislation. |
| this
would take two forms: (i) providing them with examples of best practice from elsewhere and
opportunities for public dialogue; and (ii) drafting courses for district and dprd h technical
staff. simple wording and sentences will help the implementation and enforcement of district
regulations. consistent formatting and lay-out will also enhance transparency.
guarantee a minimum of funding directly to villages
if villages are expected to do more, they should be given some financial operating space to do this.
currently, district budgets are heavily skewed towards overhead and district-controlled projects. kdp-3
provides resources to support the strengthened local administrations. inter village cooperation
in a national context, establishing inter-village cohesion is perhaps more important than strengthening
individual villages. the physical and sociological distance between a village and a district is enormous.
in the past, subdistricts (kecamatans) brokered the relationship -- most villagers would be willing to
travel to subdistricts, and it was reasonable to expect subdistrict officers to visit most of the villages with
their kecamatan. |
(there are already
examples where this is happening). fulfilling joint needs, including the effects of natural disasters, more effectively. resolution of horizontal disputes between villages. enhancing bargaining position in dealings with higher government. making better use of opportunities provided by bottom-up development planning
mechanisms.
inter-village cooperation should be left to the villages as much as possible. nevertheless, as with village
autonomy, some issues should be regulated at the national level to protect the basic principles of
democratic, transparent and accountable decision-making. |
| a ford foundation supported study found that
". some kabupatens had issued perdas on inter-village collaboration fora) but none had any
guidelines for its implementation. additions and modifications to the draft should specify:
a. a inter-village forum should not be mandatory. law 22 rightly leaves the
decision to establish a forum up to the villages. |
| if a inter-village forum is established in a
certain area, each individual village should be free to join or not. although refusal to join
could exclude it from certain advantages (e., a village that wants to in kdp,
must also participate in the inter-village forum). before villages actually meet to cooperation, disputes etc. the inter-village forum is, in , an body. it can
therefore not take on , legally binding responsibilities. villages involved in
cooperation projects would each be , separately, for share in project
(project quality, management, administration etc.. .. |