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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Booth, Anne

Titel

Splitting, splitting and splitting again: A brief history of the development of regional government in Indonesia since independence

Ist Teil von

• Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 2011, Vol.167 (1), p.31-59

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Brill

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The paper reviews the changes in the structure and role of provincial and sub-provincial governments in Indonesia since independence. Particular attention is paid to the process of splitting both provinces and districts (kabupaten and kota) into smaller units. The paper points out that this process has been going on since the 1950s, but has accelerated in the post-Soeharto era. The paper examines why the splitting of government units has occurred in some parts of the Outer Islands to a much greater extent than in Java, and also examines the implications of developments since 1999 for the capacity of local government units to deliver basic services such as health and education.