Measuring Quality of Citizens' Participation in Local Development

Abstract

Abstract-The main purpose of this study is to present the quality of citizens participation in the process of local development in Kutai Kartanegara Regency. It is argued that four main aspects of participation namely access, awareness, control and benefit are the key in determining the quality of participation. By examining these four aspects, it is found that the quality of citizens participation in Kutai Kartanegara refers to placation leader, where the quality of participation at this level is just merely formalism. In other words, the government sets opportunity for dialogue with people to propose program in development process, but it just aims to gain support from the community without any burden to realize the proposed program.

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