Decentralisation in Indonesia and Uganda: A review.

Decentralization in political and economic power to sub region authority has been an emerging issue over the past three decades especially among the developing countries. It has been deliberated as a significant factor in democracy with participation; with privatization and deregulation has been characterized a shared power in economic nation plan (Bardhan & Mookherjee, 2006). Decentralization has been gently famous nowadays (Manor, 1999, p. 1) and even considered as cornerstones of the modern good governance schema (Goetz, 2000, p. 3). With the promise of local democracy, Decentralization calls people in local ground to be more actively participated in effort to achieve an effective and efficient service delivery (Bossuyt & Gould, 2000, p. 4). Yet, within the ostensibly worldwide consensus there are those who look at decentralization as a new problem, stuffed at with hidden inequalities and insufficiencies. Inside the present debates, one of the often declared criticisms of decentralization is that governments in many times do not make choices to decentralise on the foundation of the democratic promises but rather as a result of an effort to extend the government's domination. Looking through the long standing debates on decentralization impact, this essay will try to look the ongoing process of Decentralization in the country that considered as the most decentralised in the world, Indonesia (Hofman & Kaiser, 2004, p. 1); and the most far reaching local authority reforms among the developing countries, Uganda ((Saxena et al., 2010, p. 1). Despite the current disapproval of the advantages of decentralization, it can be seen that this sharing of power will bring hope in the future to achieve better service delivery for the people in local area. However, improvement is crucial, in government accountability, fiscal arrangement, and public staff resource development.

by Kristin Oktanita

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