Jayadi, (2020). Sustainable Local Development in Indonesia's Decentralization Policy. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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This study examines the link between decentralization policy and sustainable development using empirical data of 33 provinces from 1995-2017. The study is structured into three parts. The first section analyzes the degree by creating the Sustainable Local Development Index (SLDI). This is based on a four-dimensional model, namely economic, social, environmental, and institutional dimensions. Secondly, the study examines the relationship between the decentralization policy and the degree of sustainable development with the panel data analysis. Lastly, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions were used to provide the basis for evaluating the constraints and opportunities of decentralization policy and discuss further policy in dealing with this development in Indonesia. The results showed that the social and economic dimensions have a more robust influence on the increase of the degree of sustainable development in Indonesia than the environmental and institutional. The environmental dimension has slightly deteriorated, while the institutional remained stable. All provinces continue to experience a gradual yearly increase in development. From 1995-1999 this increment was relatively smaller compared to 2000-2017. An increase in the SLDI was relatively higher from the provinces in the western part of Indonesia than those in the eastern part. Besides, the effective decentralization policy is linked to the quality of sustainable development based on the panel data analysis. The result of multiple regression analysis showed that some decentralization policy indicators, such as the percentage of females as parliamentarians, the ratio of local government officers per people, the General Allocation Fund (DAU), and the Local Own-Source Revenues (PAD), positively and significantly affect sustainable local development. Furthermore, based on in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, decentralization and sustainable development policies are dynamic and interdependent approaches across regions. The enormous upheavals of the policy in Indonesia are not a linear-consistent process and do not produce similar outcomes in each government unit. Decentralization improves local governance and political democracy in the spirit of reform with undesirable effects on the creation of disparities and environmental degradation. Some constraints influence local governments in responding to new opportunities towards achieving sustainable development, such as insufficient political will, incompetence in leadership, lack of local capacity, poor administrative management system, lagging renewable energy production, and shortcoming of public partnerships. Therefore, it is necessary to produce adaptive-responsive policies, such as interdisciplinary approaches, integrated planning designs, political-bureaucratic reform, leadership development, capacity building, strengthening public partnership, and local environmental knowledge according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2015-2030.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-117486 | ||||||||
Date: | 14 August 2020 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Geosciences > Geographisches Institut | ||||||||
Subjects: | Social sciences Economics Public administration Natural sciences and mathematics Earth sciences Geography and history |
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Date of oral exam: | 24 June 2020 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/11748 |
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