Study On A Decentralization Policy In Indonesia: A Case Study On The Implementation Of Integrated Administrative Service On District Level Of Medan City

摘要

In order to accomplish effective public services and able to deliver direct services to the community, in 2010 the Government of Indonesia (GoI) has released released a Ministry Home Affairs Regulation No 4 Year 2010 on manual of Integrated Administrative Service on District Area (in Bahasa shortened into PATEN). To accelerate and to optimize the implementation of this regulation, several regulations have been also released. In the present study, the implementation of PATEN is analyzed by using Medan city, the third biggest city in Indonesia, as the case study. The results show PATEN is not implemented yet, by the government of Medan city. The governments should implement the delegation of authority to the districts so they can activate the PATEN programs as suggested in the ministry regulation. It is suggested that the Medan government carry out the intense socialization of licenses and approaching all level of the community. In particular this can avoid the corruption in license issuing. The government of Medan city need to improve the capacity building of the human resources in order to implement the good and sustainable PATEN.