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issues. At the district level, YasKO and its networks departments and DPRD participated in encouraging changes in public services in Bantaeng.
• In 2011, citizens in Baruga village in Bantaeng complained about cuts initiated by the
principal to teachers’ honorary incentives at an elementary school. One of the teachers complained to the Pusat Pengaduan Pelayanan Publik Public Service Complaints Centre
who monitored the pathway of the complaint through to the Department of Education. The principal was sanctioned and transferred to a school in a remote area.
• In Buton, the establishment of Kelompok Orang Tua Murid parents group has encouraged
transparency in management of BOS Bantuan Operasi Sekolah funds to schools. Source: Field Reports, AKATIGA, October 2012.
3.2.2. Local Economic Development
Governments were able to align their programs with citizen demands for local economic development. Local government agencies responded to citizens demands by providing capital and
supporting the participation of cadregroups in training and marketing exhibitions to promote their products. For example, the Department of Cooperatives and the Department of Social Affairs in
Kupang were able to provide capital for small‐medium enterprises and community groups while the Department of Cooperatives and the Department of Trade in Central Lombok supported training for
women’s small enterprise groups. Similarly governments provided assistance to farmers groups in the form of seeds.
There was less change in regulations and policies on economic development as a result of citizen engagement with governments. Much of the governments’ response was related to providing
resources in support of local enterprise development and marketing. Central Lombok was one exception, where CSOs worked with citizens to successfully encourage the Bupati to issue a
regulation requiring civil servants to wear clothes made from local woven cloth on certain days. This policy encouraged a higher demand for woven products throughout the district. CSOs also met with
the Government to express their concern that without adequate support, this policy could backfire if the weavers did not have the resources or capacity to meet the demand.
3.2.3. Community Led Natural Resource Management
Regulations are important but not necessarily sufficient for addressing forest conservation. In the area of sustainable natural resource development, the government responded in the form of village
regulations and a MoU that aimed to reduce deforestation. These were not very effective because some perpetrators destroying the forest were from outside the village, over whom the community
had no control. In the case where government permits for forest management
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did significantly reduce illegal logging in Central Lombok, this was because local forest farmers groups and women’s
groups had greater control over forest usage. That these permits are valid for 30 years suggests a strong likelihood of sustainability.
3.2.4. Social Justice
