Inclusion-Elitist Paradox in Participatory Public Budgeting: A Case Study on Surakarta City, Central Java, Indonesia

摘要

Participatory public budgeting is believed as a model to improve budgeting's politic accountability. Such the approach is based on democratic elements: representation, participation, and inclusion. Democratic elements are paradoxical in nature, thereby presumably impacting on participatory public budgeting practice. This topic provided critical reflection on massive incentive of participatory public budgeting mechanism organization, generating the excess establishment of pseudo participation practice. The research method employed was case study with participatory budgeting planning mechanism in Surakarta City, Central Java Province, Indonesia, as observation object. The result of research found one paradox in participatory public budgeting, namely inclusive vs. elitist paradox. Such the paradox arouse due to derivative contradiction in democratic principle underlying participatory budgeting model. Participatory principle required inclusive element, while representation principle needs certain competency criteria some elite group had.