REGIONAL autonomy is judged to have failed by many people. The current legislation has evidently opened the door wide for opportunists to piggyback on the process of the division or formation of new regions. Government Regulation No. 129/2000 on the Requirements to Create and Criteria for the Division, Elimination and Merging of Areas is a case in point. The government’s intention was noble, to spread democratization to all areas. But that regul