DECONCENTRATION PRACTICE AND DISINTEGRATION THREATS IN ACEH AND NORTH SUMATRA

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10.2991/icoposdev-17.2018.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

deconcentration; disintegration; decentralization and special autonomous region.

Abstract

Deconcentration is simply defined as the delegation of administrative authorities of the central government to the lower level of governments along with the transfer of funds to finance the implementation of the authorities. Deconcentration, in the perspective of public administration, is the transfer of administrative responsibility for specified functions to lower levels within the central government bureaucracy, generally on some spatial basis (Ferguson and Chandrasekharan, 2004). The policy and important decision still lays on the central government and the lower governments or units are merely the implementer of the policy and decision. The practice of the deconcentration in Indonesia has obviously been implementing since the independence of the country with some dynamism and adjustments particularly with the national interest, strategies, economic or even politic. The political reform of Indonesia in the year of 1998 is mainly generated by the demands of some provinces and regions to separate from the country for instance those of demands from Aceh, Papua and Maluku. To respond the demands, central government issued decentralization law notably by the Law No.22/1999 which the revision to the previous Law No.5/1974. For some provinces which are Aceh, Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Papua, the central government issued special laws which are different to the rest provinces in the country. Yet, deconcentration principle is totally the same while the scheme of the deconcentration is bit different. An expert states one aim of practicing deconcentration in the decentralization system is to maintain the state unity and to avoid the state disintegration. This paper subsequently tries to portray the relevancy between the deconcentration practices and the state disintegration in the province of Aceh and North Sumatra.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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