After
25 years, law number 5/1974 is changed by law number 22/1999. Among this
period, the old law doesn’t bring positive effects in encouraging the autonomy
of local government. In other words, law number 5/1974 regulates many aspects
of centralization rather than decentralization aspect. As the result, central
government has an excessive power or authority, while local government can only
follow what central government says. Those conditions are dramatically changed
now. Since law number 22/1999 is issued, central government’s power reduces
significantly. In contrast, district/city government has full autonomy, and
province government has limited autonomy.
This
policy has a good impact, but at the same time it has two bad impacts. From the
positive perspective, it gives a big chance for local government to build their
self-determination by their own capacity. On the other hand, it causes not only
in omitting hierarchical relation between province and district/city
government, but also in emerging local arrogances. In addition, local
arrogances may broaden a conflict between central and local government, and
also among local governments. Unfortunately, we haven’t a formula that can be
used to solve the problems yet. It means that law number 22/1999 produces some
difficulties, due to un-readiness of the governments. As a matter of fact, law
number 22/1999 is not better than law number 5/1974.
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