Eleven years after regional autonomy was launched in Indonesia, centralized power was redistributed around many parts of Indonesia. But the intended result of equitability remains out of reach. A number of the new provinces have made good of their autonomy, yet others remain poor if not worse off. Weak rural economies have not been helped by the worsening infrastructure. In retrospect, was regional autonomy a mistake? A special report by a joint production of Koran Tempo and Tempo English Edition on how autonomy has affected Kalimantan, Flores and Papua.
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WITH President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono repeatedly saying that the process of decentralization and the establishment of new regions have gone astray, is it true that we have made a mistake? Is it true that governors and regents now have such excessive power that they may no longer be loyal to the central government?
There are many realities today that were never imagined 11 years ago when the local autonomy legislation was introduced by the gove
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