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Foreword from Editor-in Chief
It is not easy to manage a scientific journal. Timely publishing is a luxury. The selection process does take a long time. No less time-consuming is language editing. However, with all the power Jurnal Bina Praja seeks to achieve that luxury. This is our third time in the post-management changes. In this edition we are greeting the readers and presenting the 14 best articles that go to the editor for the publication of the May 2017 edition. Hopefully, all the articles are useful for the readers as well.
Jakarta, May 2017 Editor-in-Chief
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List of Contents
Determinants of Paddy Field Conversion in Java 1995-2013
Wina Dwi Febrina ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-13
Authoritative Agency for Tourism Zone: An Innovative Instrument for Destination Development?
Benjamin Abdurahman ........................................................................................................................................................................... 15-27
The Linkage of Intergovernmental Transfer and Poverty in Indonesia Heru Syah Putra .........................................................................................................................................................................................
29-40
Mapping the Local Own Resources (PAD) Performance and Regional Dependence in Indonesia 2008-2014: Quadrant Method Approach
Joko Tri Haryanto ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 41-52
Political Communication Strategy of the Regional Head in Managing Government in North Gorontalo Regency
Yusa Djuyandi ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 53-61
Jakarta Urbanization Control in Human Rights Perspective
Mochamad Felani ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 63-72
Problematizations of Discretion Policy in Indonesia’s Administration Law Number 30 of 2014 Andi Wahyudi ..............................................................................................................................................................................................
73-81
Empirical Study of Critical Success Factors for E-Government Implementation in Indonesia Based on Factor Analysis Approach Darmawan Napitupulu ...........................................................................................................................................................................
83-99
Pathology Bureaucracy: Reality of the Indonesian Bureaucracy and Prevention Lesmana Rian Andhika .......................................................................................................................................................................
101-114
The Strengthening of Region Competitiveness by Implementing City Branding in Yogyakarta
Mercy Pasande, Adi Suhendra .......................................................................................................................................................... 115-126
Local Government Readiness in Developing SIDa Roadmap in Banten, West Sumatera, and Bali
Ray Septianis Kartika .......................................................................................................................................................................... 127-136
The Implementation of Integrated Administration Services (PATEN) in Siak Regency, Riau Kemal ........................................................................................................................................................................................................
137-148
Eastern Indonesia Incorporated Policy Strategy in Eastern Indonesia Teguh Narutomo ...................................................................................................................................................................................
149-158
The Role of Regional Government in Growing Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance towards Creative Industry in Jambi Province
Susi Desmaryani ................................................................................................................................................................................... 159-169
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DDC 333 Wina Dwi Febrina (Research and Development Center National Land Agency) Determinants of Paddy Field Conversion in Java 1995- 2013
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 1-13, 1 ill, 8 tab, 18 ref.
Java is the biggest rice supplier with the largest paddy field compared to other islands in Indonesia. On the other side, economic growth needs more and more land for infrastructure growth. It was suggested that the growth would convert paddy field in Java to non-agriculture use. This paper reports the growth of land conversion, especially from paddy field to other utilization, in Java Island using panel data (provincial data 1995-2013). The data then treated as the dependent variable in the regression analysis for determining the factors that are significantly influential. The relative strengths of the influential factors are then compared using the concept of elasticity. It is found that farmers term of trade and GDP of manufacturing industries sectors significantly influence the land conversion. Meanwhile, the size of the population and the size of medium and large companies of manufacturing industries do not significantly influence the land conversion.
(Author) Keywords: Paddy Field Conversion, Determinant Factors DDC 320 Benjamin Abdurahman (Lembaga Pengembangan dan Pemberdayaan Kerja Sama Antar Daerah (LEKAD)) Authoritative Agency for Tourism Zone: An Innovative Instrument for Destination Development?
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 15-27, 6 ill, 2 tab, 29 ref.
Authority confusion in a development area in the region, especially on tourism destinations, has increased the government’s attention. The weaknesses of communication, coordination, and cooperation (3K) across sectors are suspected to be the source of the inhibiting problem. The actors who have various authorities run less synergistically and sometimes tend to prioritize their sector ego. The Ministry of Tourism currently prioritizes the concept of single destination- single management that is believed to answer the problem of development of tourism destinations in Indonesia. Ten tourism destinations have been established into national priority destinations as well as being the focus and locus of implementing this concept. To that end, the government through the Ministry of Tourism encourages the birth of institutions that have an integrity of authority, namely in the form of Tourism Authority Agency (BOP). But there are still other patterns that can be held, such as Destination Management Organization (DMO) in the context of Destination Governance (DG). The discussion of the concept of BOP as an instrument of tourism destination development in the region became the focus of writing this article. A discussion on BOP concept management pattern with DMO also needs to be done to be the source of consideration for policy improvement and planning for central and regional in the future.
(Author) Keywords: Destination Governance, Destination Management DDC 320 Heru Syah Putra (Center for the Study and Education and Government Official Training IV National, Institute of Public Administration (PKP2A IV - LAN)) The Linkage of Intergovernmental Transfer and Poverty in Indonesia
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 29-40, 0 ill, 4 tab, 35 ref.
Decentralization is expected to reduce poverty. Through fiscal decentralization, poverty may be reduced by optimizing intergovernmental grants. However, its effect on poverty is beginning to be questioned after some districts in Indonesia showed slowing performance on poverty reduction despite increasing transfer. Thus, this paper tends to investigate the linkage of intergovernmental transfer (IT) and poverty in Indonesia. By using panel data from 2005 to 2013, the linkage is tested using linear regression model. The result shows that increasing 1% of IT allocation will reduce poverty absolute by 0.12%, or 10% increase of IT will reduce poverty by 1.24%. The intergovernmental transfer also directly affects poverty gap and poverty rate. Increasing 10% of IT will reduce the poverty gap and poverty rate by 9.49% and 31.73%, respectively. Moreover, DAU (unconditional intergovernmental transfer) has a higher effect than DAK (conditional intergovernmental transfer) on poverty eradication. An increase of DAU by 1% will reduce the poverty number by 0.068%, in contrast, DAK only has 0.0418% to reduce poverty. However, as the difference is relatively small, the effectiveness of DAU on poverty is not consistent with the decentralization theory. Unconditional grant must have a significant difference than conditional grant on poverty. It may indicate that the DAU has been spent ineffectively and inefficiently. It may also indicate that it has been spent on not pro-poor policies. Thus, fiscal decentralization in Indonesia needs to be reevaluated in order to support poverty alleviation program.
(Author) Keywords: Decentralization, Poverty, Intergovernmental Transfer DDC 320 Joko Tri Haryanto (Center for Climate Change Financing and Multilateral Policy, Fiscal Policy Agency, Ministry of Finance) Mapping the Local Own Resources (PAD) Performance and Regional Dependence in Indonesia 2008-2014: Quadrant Method Approach
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 41-52, 0 ill, 3 tab, 47 ref.
Fiscal decentralization reform era started since January 1st, 2001, with the implications of changes from centralized to highly decentralized. Unfortunately, it led to a greater dependence on the Local Government to Central Government through the Intergovernmental Transfers, especially on General Allocation Fund (DAU) and also a few on the Specific Allocation Fund (DAK) and Revenue Sharing (DBH). Based on that problem, this research aims to describe regional performances since 2008 until 2014, using several indicators and quadrant method approaches. In accordance with the calculation of the ratio of local independence, the majority of regions are in the category of less independent. While using dependency ratio, the majority of regions are in the group of very large dependency and a dependency. From the results of quadrant analysis methods, most regions are in quadrant III, which means to have a high dependence on government assistance. As a policy recommendation, the government needs to evaluate the improvement of the fiscal decentralization in Indonesia.
(Author) Keywords: Local Own Resources (PAD), Local Dependency, Local Independency, Quadrant Method DDC 320 Yusa Djuyandi (Department of Political Science, Universitas Padjadjaran) Political Communication Strategy of the Regional Head in Managing Government in North Gorontalo Regency
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 53-61, 0 ill, 0 tab, 27 ref.
Since elected as the Regent of North Gorontalo period of 2013-2018, various programs, especially with regards to improving the welfare of the people, have been done well by Indra Yasin so far. The success of development in North Gorontalo District is considered inseparable from the political communication capabilities undertaken by the regents in managing the government. Political communication strategy undertaken by Indra Yasin in managing government becomes important to analyze. This study used qualitative methods, in which the source of primary data obtained from interviews and observations, while secondary data obtained from the study of documentation and the Recent studies from literature. From the results of this research, the political communication strategies were undertaken by Indra Yasin in managing government were built through nurturing characters, strengthening political institutions, to promote unity and consensus building. The success in building a strategy of political communication, in the end, was able to bring the support from various elements of government, politics, and society to development programs that have been planned.
(Author) Keywords: The Regent, North Gorontalo, Political Communications, Local Government, Development DDC 300 Mochamad Felani (Sub Commission on Assessment and Research, National Commision of Human Rights) Jakarta Urbanization Control in Human Rights Perspective
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 63-72, 0 ill, 2 tab, 22 ref.
Jakarta is one of the areas with high urbanization number and its impacts, so it requires Local Government to control the urbanization to minimize its negative impacts. On the other hand, the rights to freedom of movement and residence throughout the territory of Indonesia are guaranteed by the Law. So, this study becomes important to know how the efforts of Jakarta Provincial Government to control the urbanization as seen in human rights perspective. This study uses a qualitative approach and descriptive method. This paper argues that the urbanization control by Jakarta Local Government with orderly administration approach is not effective to control the urbanization and only created constraints of people movement and this policy violates the right to freedom movement and residence. It further suggests that the orderly administration approach should be replaced by the human rights approach in controlling the urbanization in Jakarta if it is to seek better policy.
(Author) Keywords: Urbanization, Policy, Human Rights DDC 340 Andi Wahyudi (Center for Public Administration Studies and Government Official Training III National Institute of Public Administration (PKP2A III LAN)) Problematizations of Discretion Policy in Indonesia’s Administration Law Number 30 of 2014
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 73-81, 0 ill, 0 tab, 18 ref.
This paper aims to discuss problematizations of discretion issue in the Administration Law 2014. Discretion is one of some discussed issues in the Administration Law which provides a legal guidance for bureaucrats to conduct their jobs. Drawing on Bacchi’s WPR (What is problem represented to be?) approach to policy analysis, this paper interrogates what ‘problem(s)’ is (are) produced in the policy document, what presuppositions are used as arguments to support the ‘problems’, what left as unproblematic issue that is absence in the policy problematizations, and what effects are produced by the ‘problem’ representation. The paper finds out that rules and procedures are the key concepts which assumed as policy ‘problems’ related to discretion issue. Neglecting the certain rules and procedures will be considered as doing illegal action. Only public managers have the discretionary power or managerial discretion, but in a limited room, because of upper manager’s intervention. However, this discretion policy remains an inefficient and rigid process in facing certain situation because, in exercising discretion, they have to obey certain rules and procedures. In addition, staffs do not have discretionary authority within their jobs although they might also face some certain situation which needs to make decisions.
(Author) Keywords: Problematizations, Discretion Policy, Administration Law, Indonesia DDC 350 Darmawan Napitupulu (Research Center of Quality System and Testing Technology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences) Empirical Study of Critical Success Factors for E-Government Implementation in Indonesia Based on Factor Analysis Approach
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 83-99, 1 ill, 8 tab, 17 ref.
Many people assume that e-Government is merely a technological problem while in fact non-technological factors also influence it, even tend to be more dominant. Without a comprehensive evaluation covering non- technological aspects, e-Government implementation will fail. This study aims to determine the various factors that affect the implementation of e-Government. The research method used is a survey of several government agencies and the data is analyzed by a quantitative approach, namely factor analysis to confirm success factors that have been obtained in previous synthesis studies (Napitupulu, 2014). The results of the empirical statistical research indicate there are 39 valid and reliable success factors, both technological and non-technological factors in e-Government implementation. Furthermore, these success factors can be classified into four components, namely resource components, levers, values, and impacts. It is expected that all the success factors that have been proven empirically can be accommodated by government agencies, especially in the district/city level to support the successful implementation of e-Government in Indonesia.
(Author) Keywords: E-Government, Success Factors, Empirical, Factor Analysis, Quantitative DDC 350 Lesmana Rian Andhika (Department of Administration Sciences, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Padjadjaran University) Pathology Bureaucracy: Reality of the Indonesian Bureaucracy and Prevention
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 101-114, 4 ill, 1 tab, 88 ref.
The performance of the bureaucracy a bad indicate bureaucracy riddled with problems, a pathology which arose is not always coming from outside the bureaucratic body, but pathology it has been flourishing and will exert influence when the bureaucracy is not healthy. This research article would like to give an overview of the incidence of the pathology bureaucracy in argumentation pathology can prevent. The phenomenon occurs, the bureaucracy could not deliver good public services and bureaucracy is a den of disease. The specific purpose of this research is focused on find ways of preventing the pathology of the bureaucracy that comes from a variety of scientific literature. The method in this research article systematic reviews technique, trying to identify all the written evidence exists regarding research themes. The results of this study revealed that the pathology of the bureaucracy is something to be prevented if want the bureaucracy can run the task properly, one of the ways that can be done is to do a bureaucratic innovation (an innovation on structure, systems, culture). The innovation of bureaucracy not only make changes to the organization to prevent the pathology of the bureaucracy but as an ingredient to do discretion for a government policy especially regional government.
(Author) Keywords: Pathology, Bureaucracy, Innovation, Preventing DDC 330 Mercy Pasande
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, Adi Suhendra
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1, 2
Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Home Affairs) The Strengthening of Region Competitiveness by Implementing City Branding in Yogyakarta
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 115-126, 2 ill, 3 tab, 22 ref.
This study is about City Branding. This research is motivated by the potential of City Branding creation as a way to improve regional competitiveness. The purpose of this study is to describe the various efforts made by the local government of DIY to improve the competitiveness of the region with City Branding. This research uses the qualitative method. Data collection method is done by triangulation technique of data source. While data processing researcher does data reduction. The results obtained in this study are First, City Branding DIY has been running well. Rebranding DIY is likely to increase the competitiveness of regions, including local revenue. This is evidenced by the increase in investment achieved by the Government of Yogyakarta. It’s just that City Branding is still focused on tourism, but it can be used for other sectors. Second, the DIY rebranding (2014) provides many improvements, especially in terms of concept, logo, and tagline. In addition, the Yogyakarta provincial government has established city branding councils, city branding strategy roadmap and governor regulation of city branding in DIY. It’s just that there has been no evaluation since the rebranding was done by the provincial government of DIY, how this rebranding can be implemented by the local government and city branding council and there is no extent to which the strategy in the roadmap implemented.
(Author) Keywords: City Branding, Local Authorities, Regional Innovation DDC 350 Ray Septianis Kartika (Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Home Affairs) Local Government Readiness in Developing SIDa Roadmap in Banten, West Sumatera, and Bali
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 127-136, 3 ill, 4 tab, 13 ref.
Regional autonomy demands a creative and innovative local government. This paper sees the creativity of local government in preparing the roadmap. Basically, the readiness of local government in preparing SIDa roadmap is the overall condition of local government to understand the potential of the area in determining thematic roadmap. Some things that should be prepared by the local government is to prepare the regulation and mapping of SIDa personnel. Through this study, it comprehensively describes the stages that must be taken into account by the stakeholders in the region. The method used the explorative descriptive method. The results of the study are identified (1) Local Government readiness in preparing the SIDa roadmap by preparing the legal basis, coordinating with R & D institutions, integrating provincial and district/city programs, and preparing SIDa documents, (2) Elements prepared by the Provincial Government: Establishing TEAM Coordination Province, Identification of potency of local superior commodity, human resource identification, feasibility test, and identification of innovation of regency / city, (3) obstacles encountered in preparing SIDa roadmap are: still strong sectoral ego coordination team of province especially university and low commitment of local government Districts/municipalities in the implementation of innovation, the absence of SIDa actors in the implementation level of private sector/business world, budget allocation for innovation at various SKPD, and implementation of coordination team not yet run properly.
(Author) Keywords: Research and Development Agency, Local Government, Local Innovation System (SIDa) DDC 350 Kemal (Institute of Public Administration (IPDN), Ministry of Home Affairs) The Implementation of Integrated Administration Services (PATEN) in Siak Regency, Riau
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 137-148, 2 ill, 6 tab, 28 ref.
This research is about the Implementation of District Integrated Administration Service (PATEN) in bringing closer and improving services to the community in Siak Regency, Riau Province. Law Number 23 of 2014 on Regional Government states that District Heads must implement two authorities, namely Attributive authority, and Delegated authority. The District head as, a regional apparatus, is no longer the head of a region that must obtain a delegation of some of the authority of the Regent/Mayor as stipulated by Regent/Mayor regulation.
Not all Regents/Mayors delegate part of the authority to District Heads so that the implementation of service is centered in Regency/City. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method, and data collection technique is in the form of the interview, observation, and documentation.
The results revealed that (1) PATEN in Siak District can bring closer and improve service to the community free of charge; (2) There is a strong commitment from the Siak Regent in the delegation of some of the licensing authority to the District Heads. For example, the presence of service space in the district with service counters, PATEN officers, the incentives of PATENT officers, and the direct supervision from the Regent. (3) Positive responses from the community, such as better service, free, and close to the service recipient community.
(Author) Keywords: Authority Delegation, Integrated Administration, Service DDC 360 Teguh Narutomo (Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Home Affairs) Eastern Indonesia Incorporated Policy Strategy in Eastern Indonesia
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 149-158, 0 ill, 2 tab, 13 ref.
This study is about the development gap in eastern Indonesia. This research is motivated by the existence of big problems that still faced by Indonesia up to now is the happening of development gap. The purpose of this research is the policy strategy in overcoming the gap between eastern Indonesia and West Indonesia region. This research uses the qualitative approach with discourse analysis method. Data collection method is done by triangulation technique of data source. Meanwhile, the data processing conducted by the researcher is data reduction. The result of this study is to provide an alternative policy that can be used and somewhat different from the mainstream which usually overcomes the gap by directly implementing the infrastructure development policy which until now based on the evaluation did not directly solve the problem, as evidenced by the many results of the construction of the stagnant infrastructure.
Through this study, it is found that there are major issues that are more fundamental and often overlooked by policy makers. The main issues are grouped into three major groups of major issues, namely: Comprehensive Planning and Budgeting, Data and Information Effectiveness, and Professionalism of Civil State Apparatus.
(Author) Keywords: Development Gaps, Comprehensive Planning, Data Effectiveness, Professionalism of Civil State Apparatus DDC 330 Susi Desmaryani (Regional Research and Development Agency (Balitbangda) Jambi Province) The Role of Regional Government in Growing Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance towards Creative Industry in Jambi Province
Jurnal Bina Praja, May 2017, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 159-169, 1 ill, 3 tab, 19 ref.
Globalization requires Small and Medium enterprises to increase its existence in order to compete in a global world. Small and Medium enterprises have to always increase the creativity to be able to create products that have innovated. Yet currently, SMEs still have obstacles in increasing its existence, such as the poor ability of businesses, the difficulty of access to capital and does not quickly follow the development of science and technology. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of government to grow the performance of SMEs towards creative industry in Jambi Province. The sampling technique for the location and respondents is in a purposive sampling. The provision of sample site and respondents selection is based on the already defined criteria. For locations, there are 7 (seven) locations selected as the samples and 200 for the sample of respondents. The analysis method used is the descriptive analysis depicting government role in improving SMEs performance. The results of the study explain that the government’s support is still low to improve the quality of human resources through education and training. There are still SMEs which have never attended the training because the Department of Industry and Trade has not had a database of SMEs which have attended the training or not. SMEs still have capital problems. The government is not yet optimally introducing technological advances and not yet optimally assisting the development and marketing of products. There is overlapping of the same programs among SKPD that empower SMEs. From the other side, the business climate is already conducive as the government gives ease of permit and smoothness of business. The results of the study recommend (1) to provide education and training equally for SMEs (2) Creation of synergistic between the related SKPD and SMEs (3) Developing microfinance institution to solve the capital problem (3) Jambi Provincial Government needs to build cooperation with universities to do Transfer of science and technology.
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