Understanding Regional Budget Reality in the Framework of Ethno-Semiotics

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10.2991/978-2-38476-108-1_45How to use a DOI?

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Community Aspiration Fund; Ethno-Semiotics; Regional Budgeting

Abstract

The aim of this research is to understand how regional budget actors and communities interpret the community aspiration fund in regional budgeting. The discourse on the “community aspiration fund” has become one of the realities of regional budgeting that has caused contradictions. This study uses an ethno-semiotic approach to understand how regional budget actors and communities read or interpret the sign of the community aspiration fund in their social context and also understand the socio-political relations and institutions behind the text and develop connotative meanings towards myths and ideologies. The results of this study show that: (1) at the level of the sign, the community aspiration fund serves as a means to serve the interests of “constituent” communities and becomes one consideration for equalizing between electoral districts, (2) at the micro level, the community aspiration fund is interpreted as a trust fund, tactical, political, conspiracy, inspiration of budget actors, loss of meaning, and other things that are considered not to have a broad impact on the community, (3) at the macro level, this study obtains an understanding that the community aspiration fund is a myth that is actually arbiter and connotative. The community aspiration fund has diffused as a narrative created for the interests of budget actors, becoming a ritual in regional budgeting and ultimately becoming “sacred” because social movements that doubt the policy of the community aspiration fund as a means to create community welfare have emerged.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Oktavianus Pasoloran
AU  - Ade Lisa Matasik
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/09/28
TI  - Understanding Regional Budget Reality in the Framework of Ethno-Semiotics
BT  - Proceedings of the Online Conference of Education Research International (OCERI 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 466
EP  - 475
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-108-1_45
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-108-1_45
ID  - Pasoloran2023
ER  -