Vol. 9 No. 2 (2017)

The declining trend of Tabalong Regency’s economic growth in recent years adversely affected the poverty rate. Further, the recent energy subsidy policy applied by the Indonesian Government has pushed the subsidy’s budget down for some energy goods. Therefore, there should be an awareness regarding the current energy policy and the impact on the poverty particularly in Tabalong Regency. This paper investigates the demand system for the three main energy goods; premium fuel, electricity, and Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) in Tabalong Regency of the South Kalimantan Province. Although the same method was previously used on the different topics, this paper uniquely utilizes the combined Linear Approximation and Quadratic Almost-Ideal Demand System on the particular energy policy topic. This paper utilizes the National Social Economics Survey conducted by BPS-Statistics of Tabalong Regency in 2016. The results show that the income elasticity of demand for the top 60% and the bottom 40% of the income groups were positive; however, slight differences could be seen. For the top 60% of the income group, the income elasticities of demand were 0.97, 1.02, and 1.08 for premium fuel, electricity, and LPG respectively. On the other hand, the bottom 40% of the income group had 0.99, 1.07, and 0.91 of income elasticity of demand for premium, electricity, and LPG. The price elasticity of demand for both income groups had negative signs, which is agreeing with the theoretical demand function. These results indicate that the current energy policy should continue with securing the poor households from the possible effect.

This study is motivated by the change project’s sustainability problem based on the study of PKP2A II LAN (2016) study team, identified after Level IV and Level III Leadership Training (Diklatpim). After the training, there are still some milestones or goals of the projects that have not been achieved. Medium-term and long-term goals have not been assessed because the new Diklatpim only review the general implementation of change projects during the training session. The change projects produced in the process of Diklatpim to achieve short-term goals may have a prospect to be expanded, enabling it to maintain its sustainability and to provide benefits for the region especially in the provision of public services. The current conditions rely solely on the alumni of Diklatpim and their mentors, which makes it somewhat difficult to maintain the sustainability of the change projects effectively. This study aims to provide an alternative policy solution for regional governments to improve the sustainability and increase the scale of the Diklatpim’s change projects. Using literature study methods and qualitative approach, a collaborative model of innovation actors in the regional government for the development of innovation projects is developed. The collaborative model resulting from this study is called the WPPPA Model. This model is a collaboration model between Widyaiswara, Researcher, Planner and Diklatpim Alumni. The successful collaboration process undertaken by key innovation actors will be useful to maintain the sustainability of change projects on a broader scale and increasing the outcome of regional innovation sourced from the change projects.

Indonesia has a long history of fiscal decentralization. In terms of accountability and transparency, it is necessary to have performance appraisal of local financial indicators. This research was conducted by taking samples of natural and non-natural resources regions from the 2010 - 2014 period. From the result of the degree of decentralization indicator, the natural resources region has a low degree. In contrast, on non-natural resources regions, they have a higher degree and included in both good and very good criteria. Based on the independence local indicators, only Siak Regency has the greatest independence, while other natural resource regions have very small category and the instructional relationships pattern. In non-natural resources regions categories, all samples are independent enough and already independent with participatory and discretionary relationship pattern. In the harmonization among routine and developmental spending indicators, in natural resources regions, routine spending is relatively small. While in non- natural resources regions, routine spending allocation is also very dominant. From that result, the government should formulate an innovative non-public development pattern to further enhancing the participation of other stakeholders and also provide advocacy to Local Government to start limiting the routine personnel expenditure and prioritizing to infrastructure development that impacts the investment.

A city with a multicultural society allows the social processes of ethnicity, either associative or dissociative. Especially in the city of Bandung, the dynamics of social processes of ethnicity between Chinese ethnic and Sundanese ethnic have ups and downs. Based on the idea, the purpose of this study is to describe how the associative and dissociative social process of Chinese ethnic and Sundanese ethnic in Bandung? The research design uses a qualitative approach with case study model. The location of the research was conducted in Bandung. This research produced a description of social relations practices that are associative in the form of cooperative relations if there is a common interest, while in the form of accommodation occurs if the Chinese ethnic embraces Islam. The social process in the form of assimilation and amalgamation can be seen in the field of culture. Meanwhile, social processes that indicate competition, rivalry, and social conflict (dissociative) start from the perspective of stereotypes, prejudices and discriminatory.

One of the important management functions in government is supervision. However, supervisory issues are complex and complex, not as easy as what is being applied when applied, including its application in government agencies. Related to this, this study aims to find out the implementation of supervisory policy implementation of employee duties as well as identifying the supporting factors and obstacles in the District Office Cipocok Jaya Serang City. The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive method, with the informant is an employee in the district office environment. Data collection techniques used are interview techniques, and the instrument is in the form of interview guidelines. The data analysis technique is an inductive data analysis. The results of the field findings indicate that in the early stages of preparing the progress report lacking with the search for new data, most of the contents of the progress report have not really met the criteria or have the proper value, supervision for the work phenomenon is less followed up by the leadership, daily reporting, weekly, and the quarterly execution of the duties of employees is rarely implemented, evaluations conducted by the leadership so far prioritize the achievement of the number or target set (quantity standard), and the measurement of the quality of the work of the employee is only based on estimation only. Thus, the implementation of the policy of supervising the implementation of the duties of employees at the Cipocok Jaya District Office has been poor.

The local head election in Indonesia suffers from vote buying. However, there is a lack of study compared to vote buying case in Indonesia, especially quantitative study. Therefore, this study aims to fill the gap. The purpose is to estimate the effect of individual and community characteristics on the probability of voter to consider money or gifts in a local head election. This study uses the data from Indonesia Family Life Survey 5 (IFLS5) conducted in 2014/2015 for 29,788 respondents. As the response is a binary data, the Linear Probability Model (LPM) and logit model is utilized.  The result shows that both individual and community characteristics affect vote buying in Indonesia. Voters with tertiary education are far less likely to consider money or gift by 29.1% than others. By using logit test, the coefficient is corrected. Voters with a university degree tend to not engage in vote buying by 0.27 times than the others. This study finds other interesting findings that gender matter in vote buying in Indonesia. Female voters tend to consider money or gift more than male by 2.44%. Voters who live in rural areas have a higher probability to consider vote buying by 4.55%. Living in the internet-connected community may reduce the probability of vote buying. The coefficient indicates that those with internet access have less probability to consider money or gift in an election by 1.35%.  Living in a community with high social awareness makes voters less vulnerable to vote buying. The coefficient indicates that they have less possibility to consider money by 2.44% than those living in communities with less social awareness. Thus, the strategy to eliminate vote buying should be adjusted to the character of voters in a certain community.

Many studies merely focus on discussing the benefits of open government, but the negative effects of open government in a variety of published literary works are limited. The advantages of open government are for citizens to get easier access to data and government activity, regulation, and policies. A particular purpose of the research explores the conceptual theoretic from a variety of scientific literature and to understand the negative effects of open government. The method in this research article is a synthesis of qualitative research approach to meta-theory analysis. Data in the research is processed deductively from a variety of scientific literature. The results of the research study aim to explain open government, or open data is not necessarily to generate transparency in government activities. Participation and collaboration in some cases are still considered yet they significantly support open government. It is because a concept may not be appropriate in different places that were affected by the characteristics of the socio-cultural, economic, and democracy of a nation.

Poverty issue in Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) has happened for several years. Some efforts have been done, but there is no significant impact. Poverty issue in NTT is being the concern of Indonesia’s government not only because the high number of poorer, but also the location which is in border territory of Indonesia-Timor Leste. Actually, realized or not, NTT has great potencies behind the problem caused by its dry soil and some social issue in its society. Some of those potencies are able to be seen in five local economic sectors, i.e. demography, forestry, farming and animal husbandry, trading, and tourism. This article is written to explain how big potencies of NTT and how to manage it in order to alleviate poverty. The approach used in this article is qualitative approach with literature review as collecting data method. There is no special method used in analysing this article; it is just objective analysis based on current data, situation, and condition. Based on the analysis, there are so many potencies in NTT, but they have not been developed well, whereas people stuck in current situation, so there is no significant achievement in poverty alleviation efforts. Potency utilization can be optimally hold through strategic, effective, and efficient efforts supported by government, both national and local, and NTT society. Through potency optimization, poverty rate in NTT should be able to be push down.

The mortality rate and the distribution of dengue fever case in Indonesia tend to increase. Jambi Province is the province with the highest mortality rate in Indonesia in 2013, and Jambi City is the highest contributor for the last 3 years. Eradication efforts have been made, but they have not been able to break the chain of transmission. This research uses descriptive design with a qualitative approach to identify the causes of inaccuracy of eradication efforts and to determine the strategy of eradicating dengue fever in Jambi City. Site selection was done by purposive sampling, with the highest incidence rate criterion in 2015. The informants were chosen based on the criteria of conformity and adequacy, covering the Health Department, the Puskesmas, the sub-district and the community i.e. the larva monitoring cadre (jumantik). The assessment scheme is based on government policy implementation scheme in eradicating DHF by the identification of factors based on ultrasound analysis (Urgency, Serious, Growth). The strategy of eradication efforts is based on SWOT analysis (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats). The determination of alternative strategies was chosen based on Mc. Namara's screening theory, with 5 criteria of effectiveness, ease, benefits, time, and cost. The result of the research shows that the inaccuracy of dengue eradication efforts in Jambi City lies in the ineffectiveness of the implementation of the Mosquito Nest Eradication (PSN) movement through cross-sector integration in community empowerment routinely and independently. The main strategy that can be done by the government is to increase the role of larva monitoring cadres and larva monitoring students (sismantik) through budget support from across sectors in campaigning PSN movement regularly, either at house or institution environment.

This study aims to capture public appraisal, especially student groups as young voters. The public appraisal that will be captured relates to the satisfaction of young voters on the performance of one year of government Jokowi Jusuf Kalla. Using the survey method, this study will be conducted on student groups in the Pancasila and Citizenship Education Study Program, Ahmad Dahlan University. Data collection was done by spreading the questionnaire which then performed tabulation and correlation analysis. This study is expected to be the baseline data in the first year of Jokowi Jusuf Kalla's reign as the basis for future leadership prediction analysis for the next four years. Thus, by knowing the basic pattern in the first year it will be analyzed how would the trend of satisfaction and political beliefs of society until the end of office Joko Widodo.

Indonesia is one of the largest archipelagic country in the world, with an area of 1,913,578.67 km2, and consists of 34 provinces, 415 regencies, and 93 cities. Since the end of centralistic governance under Soeharto's administration in 1999, Indonesia has adopted a decentralized governance system to deliver national and regional development. It has been noted that Indonesia has variations in social, economic, ecological, and institutional dimensions between a province to another province in Indonesia. This study aims to analyze the sensitivity of indicator and hierarchy of sustainability of province in Indonesia, using a scalogram method, and analyze the status of sustainable development of the regions, using cluster and flag analysis method. The research shows two most sensitive indicators, the ratio of paved road length to area width and the GDP per capita. Both of these indicators are very effective in increasing the sustainability of provincial development in Indonesia. Of the 33 provinces studied, 24 are at a moderate level of sustainability. Flag analysis showed that the SDG scenario is better than the NC-MEA and the BAU at Region I to III.

Capital investment of local government or long-term regional investment is a form of government program and one of the tools of regulating the regional fiscal. Local government investment in the form of direct investment is the capital investment in business entities which aims to increase regional economic growth, increase regional income, and improve the welfare of the community. Regional capital investment is a decision-making behavior to invest or not to invest in business entities to obtain dividends. The behavior of decision making requires Information on bank performance, knowledge of banking governance, and shareholder agreements with bank directors. This study aims to analyze performance behavior and investment of provincial government that affects the profit of regional development banks in Indonesia. The method of analysis is done using descriptive statistic and multiple linear regression. Multiple Linear Regression with dependent variable of regional development bank profit and independent variable consist of Bank size (SIZE), business risk of BPD bank (RISK_Bt), Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Operational Cost to Operating Income (BOPO), Return of Equity (ROE), Interest Rate of Bank (INTEREST), Provincial Capital Investment to Bank BPD (PMD), Regional Minimum Wage (UMR), Initial Public Offering Dummy (DIPO), and Bank Business Target Dummy (DSARBISB). The result of descriptive statistical analysis concluded that the capital investment of 26 provincial governments in 26 regional development banks describes the varying bank performance caused by different bank sizes. The results of multiple regression analysis can conclude that all independent variables are able to both explain the dependent variable at a significant level of level below 1%, as well as individually ten independent variables that are statistically significantly different with zero at levels below 1%, below 5%, and below 10%.

The current development paradigm is still dominated by the neoclassical economic perspective which sees economic development as a mechanical and simplistic process, without the need to look at aspects of respect, protection, and fulfillment of human rights, although, human rights is the first state responsibility of government. As a result, human rights are not the focus of development policy-making. Human rights and development have a mutually reinforcing relationship that will direct the efforts towards a higher quality of development.On this basis, this study shines a spotlight and examines the management of regional development planning with a human rights basis. To get an idea of ​​the reality, researchers use three areas as a sample, namely: Batang (Central Java), Trenggalek (East Java), and Tanjungpinang (Riau Islands). Existing practices are examined with a human rights-based approach, namely: the formulation process, main content, implementation mechanisms, and protection and restoration. Furthermore, a descriptive qualitative approach is selected to describe the process, understand the nonconformities as well as identify the planning process and the implementation of the development plan. For that, primary data collection is done through interview techniques, focused discussions, and field observation. While for secondary data collection through a literature study. The study shows that the fulfillment of the right to healthcare, education, and food has become  priorities in regional development planning. A more transparent and accountable planning approach also opens opportunities to make human right-based development planning as the mainstream. The prerequisites driving factors lie in the dynamics of regional regulation and the commitment of the regional heads with the vision and mission outlined in the RPJMD, including a commitment to maintain a transparent, accountable and clean bureaucracy. In conclusion, the transparent planning approach in the RPJMD needs to be balanced by using human rights standards to improve the quality of human development in the region.

Housing needs in major cities in Indonesia are increasing due to urbanization. The solution taken by the government is to provide rental housing (rusunawa). Low income families who initially live in slums need some adaption when moving into the rusunawa. The purpose of this research is to analyze the socio-demographic relationships of families, social capital and subjective well-being (SWB). Using quantitative method and household survey, this study was conducted by giving questionnaires and interview to 90 residents of 396 rusunawa units. The study use regression analysis. Thus, the result shows that social capital, the social network, and trust, determine the SWB. If SWB is an indicator of the process of adaption of a person or family in a new place, in this study, we concluded that these two variables were very important for the resident. Using social networking and trust, these residents can adjust to a new housing milieu.