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Policy Note: Obstacles to Eradicating Corruption in the Regional Government Bill

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It is common knowledge that many regional heads have been caught in cases of corruption and/or abuse of authority. Lord Acton’s doctrine which states that “power tends to corrupt, absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely” finds its justification in the context of the situation in Indonesia. At the beginning of this year, around February 2013, […]

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Policy Memo #3 | Comments on the Regional Government Bill

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Decentralization in Indonesia began on May 7, 1999. The decentralization referred to here is the conception and practice of decentralization in accordance with the Reform Agenda: implementing regional autonomy as wide as possible. This decentralization milestone was marked by the issuance of Law Number 22 of 1999 concerning Regional Government. Since then, the Regional Government

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Policy Memo #2, 2014 | Political Terror and National Resilience Agenda for Presidential Candidates

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In the 2013 Global Peaceful Index (GPI) Report, Indonesia is ranked the 54th most peaceful country out of 162 countries in the world, with a score of 0.1879. Indonesia’s ranking is quite high compared to 4 other countries in the ASEAN region, namely Cambodia (115), the Philippines (129), Thailand (130), and Burma (140). In addition

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