Cooperation Strategy of Local Politics in Poverty Alleviation Ivanovich Agusta (IPB) Soon after decentralization in Indonesian government, a distinctive problem in poverty alleviation is, that successful development of a local city always pulls poor people from other areas entering the city. Poor people may not be formal residents of the developed area. Local officers of...Read More

Aristocrats and the Rise of Aristocrac-ism in South Sulawesi Local Politics: Some Quantitative Evidence Dias Pradadimara (Universitas Hasanuddin) Local informants in South Sulawesi will immediately tell every visiting researcher on local politics on the importance of the aristocrats (“bangsawan”) in politics. This claim in someway relates to the continuing roles of dozens of royal Houses...Read More

The Post-Soeharto Restructuring of Local Politics in West, Central and East Java: Democratization, Power Elite and the 2004 Elections Jun Honna (College of International Relations Ritsumeikan University) Indonesia’s elections in 2004 have encouraged an international view that the post-Soeharto democratic transition is now in consolidation. This assessment is supported by the fact that both general...Read More

Controlling the Local Power and Unmobile Capital in the Decentralized Indonesia Okamoto Masaaki (CSEAS Kyoto University) A suppressing canopy of the authoritarian Suharto regime was taken off in 1998 and many regions felt free to express their own demands toward the central government and the local elite put the people in hasty motion to achieve the...Read More

Decentralization in Indonesia: Is it Making a Difference in Local Governance? Luce Bulosan (ICITAP U.S. Department of Justice) Four years ago, Laws 22 and 25/1999 provided the legal framework for an overwhelming decentralization of political, administrative, and fiscal decentralization in Indonesia. Now, a plethora of studies documenting the extent, pace, and consequences of decentralization exists.  This...Read More