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Effects Of Decentralization Of Indonesia

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In the beginning of Soeharto’s period until the end of Soeharto’s period, Indonesia centralized the national regime. Indonesia determined to apply a policy of decentralization that became effective on January 1st, 2001. This essay would explain the failure of Indonesian decentralization, whereas this essay only has one area of focus, the failure of distribution of power. Why decentralization in Indonesia has failed? The main factor of this failure has been started in the first time Indonesia apply decentralization after 1998 tragedy whereas the end of Soeharto’s period and the end of centralized government. After that tragedy Indonesia use decentralization until now. But, Indonesia applies this system in sudden. Another country around …show more content…

Indonesia is too sudden to apply decentralized government, as the other state especially developing state need a transition phase to change their system from centralized regime to decentralized regime at that time. Owing to that, it enacts Indonesia immature in implementing the decentralization system. Therefore, the decentralization in Indonesia today is still unstructured and it gives lots of bad impacts to Indonesia. And decentralization which predicted can bring Indonesia become better is like a contradiction whereas it become a boomerang for Indonesia. As it enacts Indonesia not as good as expected or we can say Indonesia become worse than …show more content…

According to World Bank the enrollment rate differences among regions are significant. Given the size, and diversity of the country, enrollment rates varies from the highest in Java to the lowest in Papua. From that, can be seen that the public services in Indonesia is not growing equally. For fact that public services growth is slow we can see in health care. Indonesia had the lowest physician density (number of physician per 100.000 populations) within its ASEAN neighbors. Ratios of nurses and midwives are higher than

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