How has Decentralized Democracy Impacted on the Socioeconomic Well-Being of Workers and the General Public in Indonesia

Jameaba, Muyanja-Ssenyonga

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“…This is because the social context of the urban community demands a simpler, faster, and service-oriented bureaucracy for their affairs. This affects the public reception upon the municipal government to be consumeristic towards public services where public participation is only reasoned under satisfaction rating (Jameaba, 2013). This consumeristic culture does not imply any expectation which the Village Act stipulated as to public participation in a direct democracy.…”

Section: The Socio-legal Problems Of the New Bill On Lpmk And Its Impmentioning

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The Impact of Indonesian Law No. 6/2014 on Women’s Political Participation in the Politics of Kelurahan: A Study on Kelurahan’s Community Empowerment Institution (LPMK) in Salatiga, Indonesia

Purwanti

Wijaningsih

Setiawan

2019

J.D.Hk.

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In Indonesia, decentralization and democratization have prompted the issue of women’s representation to be brought upon local and small-scale communities. One of the examples is the Indonesian Law No.6/2014 (the Village Act) in which the affirmative action for women’s participation is mandated in village’s representative body. Later, the same action is implemented in the urban counterpart to village’s rural that is Kelurahan, with the same Act –mutatis mutandis-. This article explores the implementation of Law No. 6/2014’s affirmative action to the kelurahan’s representative body, the Community Empowerment Institution or Lembaga Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Kelurahan (LPMK) in Salatiga. Acknowledging that there are fundamental differences between village and kelurahan, we found that such a maneuver has caused policy and practical inconsistencies where gender equality clause is omitted and the organization’s structure remains unreformed. Thus, it seems that the implementation of affirmative action for women participation in kelurahan’s politics has been withered before blooming.

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Section: The Socio-legal Problems Of the New Bill On Lpmk And Its Impmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Indonesian Law No. 6/2014 on Women’s Political Participation in the Politics of Kelurahan: A Study on Kelurahan’s Community Empowerment Institution (LPMK) in Salatiga, Indonesia

Purwanti

Wijaningsih

Setiawan

2019

J.D.Hk.

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“…Initially, the state granted multi-faceted autonomy powers to provinces and districts with the former has higher authority than the latter. The decentralization mandates the central government to allocate some powers to regional governments as to take a decision and legislating statutes specifically addressed and applied in accordance with each own province and district [1]. Whereas the central government would only retain powers in the field of monetary matters, defense, foreign affairs, justice and religion [2].…”

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Examining Local Policy to Improve Women’s Participation in Village Politics: A Case Study in Semarang Regency, Indonesia

Purwanti¹,

Ispriyarso²,

Wijaningsih³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2019)

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The Indonesia government has enacted the Village Act (Law No. 6/2014) which allows villages to establish a simple democratic government which consists of an executive (village leader) and a legislative body named Village Representative Council (VRC). As the legislative politics have been progressing forward to gender equality through affirmative action so does the village. This article explores the development of affirmative action at the villages of Semarang Regency whereby the regent government has enacted an affirmative action mechanism to ensure women representation in the VRC for at least one woman per village. Moreover, it is supposed that such policy can improve their political capabilities and public supports, thus the task of this article to find out. Therefore, we used a qualitative approach to examine the policy's implementation in the villages of Semarang Regency. Our preliminary findings explain that the policy mandates the village government to facilitate and encourage women villagers to be active in politics, especially decision-making, through three key strategies, self-participation, self-representation, and community building. Self-participation means that women shall be organized as a political group. Selfrepresentation means that the representative of women's interests shall come from, be nominated, and voted by, women villagers only.

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How has Decentralized Democracy Impacted on the Socioeconomic Well-Being of Workers and the General Public in Indonesia

Cited by 2 publications

References 18 publications

The Impact of Indonesian Law No. 6/2014 on Women’s Political Participation in the Politics of Kelurahan: A Study on Kelurahan’s Community Empowerment Institution (LPMK) in Salatiga, Indonesia

The Impact of Indonesian Law No. 6/2014 on Women’s Political Participation in the Politics of Kelurahan: A Study on Kelurahan’s Community Empowerment Institution (LPMK) in Salatiga, Indonesia

Examining Local Policy to Improve Women’s Participation in Village Politics: A Case Study in Semarang Regency, Indonesia

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