Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Preface: Looking Back to Move Forward
- Map
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- PART I Recent Political and Economic Developments
- PART II Globalisation, Decentralisation and Sustainable Development
- 4 Indonesia in a Changing Global Environment
- 5 International Trade and the Natural Resource ‘Curse’ in Southeast Asia: Does China's Growth Threaten Regional Development?
- 6 Unfinished Edifice or Pandora's Box? Decentralisation and Resource Management in Indonesia
- 7 Does Indonesia have the Balance Right in Natural Resource Revenue Sharing?
- 8 Development Performance and Future Scenarios in the Context of Sustainable Utilisation of Natural Resources
- PART III Sectoral Challenges
- PART IV Illegal Extractions and Conflicts
- PART V Laws and Institutions
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- INDONESIA UPDATE SERIES
6 - Unfinished Edifice or Pandora's Box? Decentralisation and Resource Management in Indonesia
from PART II - Globalisation, Decentralisation and Sustainable Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Preface: Looking Back to Move Forward
- Map
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- PART I Recent Political and Economic Developments
- PART II Globalisation, Decentralisation and Sustainable Development
- 4 Indonesia in a Changing Global Environment
- 5 International Trade and the Natural Resource ‘Curse’ in Southeast Asia: Does China's Growth Threaten Regional Development?
- 6 Unfinished Edifice or Pandora's Box? Decentralisation and Resource Management in Indonesia
- 7 Does Indonesia have the Balance Right in Natural Resource Revenue Sharing?
- 8 Development Performance and Future Scenarios in the Context of Sustainable Utilisation of Natural Resources
- PART III Sectoral Challenges
- PART IV Illegal Extractions and Conflicts
- PART V Laws and Institutions
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- INDONESIA UPDATE SERIES
Summary
INTRODUCTION
The prologue to the first Law on Local Government (Law 22/1999) resoundingly announces its intention to (1) underscore the principles of democracy, social participation, equity and justice and (2) give emphasis to local potentialities and diversity. The prologue to the companion Law on Fiscal Balancing between the Central Government and Regional Governments (Law 25/1999) is equally forthright in its intention to (1) provide the opportunity to increase democracy and local capacities, (2) enhance social prosperity and create a civil society free of corruption, collusion and nepotism and (3) increase social participation, openness and responsibility. These laws by their stated objectives and identifiable phrasing stand out as key components of a period of intensive legislative reform initiated by President B.J. Habibie. The effect of these critically important laws on decentralisation, and more particularly on the subsequent management of natural resources, cannot be disentangled from a whole range of related laws and decrees that have carried forward the process of reform since the fall of President Soeharto's New Order. Contrary to their proclaimed rhetoric, however, these laws have not led to the establishment of more effective means for the management of local resources, or to greater openness and responsibility in the use of such resources. In giving the widest possible authority to hundreds of regional governments, they have created a diversity of systems of management and mismanagement with no mechanism for supporting one or discouraging the other.
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- The Politics and Economics of Indonesia's Natural Resources , pp. 92 - 108Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak InstitutePrint publication year: 2005