Delivering Together : Using Indonesia's Village Law to Optimize Frontline Service Delivery
Over the past twenty years, Indonesia has pursued an ambitious policy agenda for decentralization. Indonesia's subnational governments play a key role in providing frontline services. In 2014, Indonesia's Village Law ushered in a new chap...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/747591629360737253/Delivering-Together-Using-Indonesias-Village-Law-to-Optimize-Frontline-Service-Delivery http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36205 |
| Summary: | Over the past twenty years, Indonesia
has pursued an ambitious policy agenda for decentralization.
Indonesia's subnational governments play a key role in
providing frontline services. In 2014, Indonesia's
Village Law ushered in a new chapter in the country's
decentralization agenda. The law establishes a legal and
financial foundation for villages to contribute to
Indonesia's rural development. In 2020, village
transfers accounted for around ten percent of all
subnational transfers, playing an important role in
Indonesia's Coronavirus (COVID-19) response strategy.
Despite these positive results, several frontier issues in
the overall decentralization agenda hinder villages'
contributing potential to improving frontline service
delivery. This report categorizes these structural
challenges into four broad categories of regulatory
challenges, coordination gaps, limited capacity building
systems, and fragmentation in accountability systems. The
report aims to show how overcoming these structural
challenges can enable the government to institutionalize
systems of accountability and participation into its wider
service delivery framework. |
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