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central-government

Archipelago 7 months ago

Choose leaders with strong central govt connections: Golkar chief

Golkar chair Bahlil Lahadalia said Ahmad Luthfi knew Central Java very well, having served as t...

Academia 9 months ago

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Improving the effectiveness of central-regional governance

The government's move to give greater authority to regional administrations is founded on the re...

Archipelago 1 year ago

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Jokowi tells regional administrations to fall in line with central government

In a speech at the National Development Planning Conference (Musrenbangnas), outgoing President...

Editorial 4 years ago

Leading Jakarta

Three years of governorship have seen disharmony between Anies and the central government on many fr...

National 4 years ago

'Don't rush in shutting down a city': Jokowi wants local-scale COVID-19 restrictions

Jokowi argued that each neighborhood unit or village in a certain region might need different treatm...

National 5 years ago

SMRC survey finds local govts rated higher for COVID-19 response than central govt

A recent survey has found that most Indonesians felt that their own provincial administrations had r...

National 5 years ago

Turf war undermines COVID-19 fight in Indonesia

Tensions have been brewing between the State Palace and local governments over different approaches ...

Business 5 years ago

Omnibus bill to diminish local governments' authority over spatial planning: KPPOD

According to Jakarta-based think tank Regional Autonomy Watch (KPPOD), instead of improving the proc...

Business 5 years ago

Omnibus bill to centralize permit processing, offer incentives for miners

The changes are very similar to those being separately worked on by the House of Representatives.

Opinion 5 years ago

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Challenges of decentralization

We knew from history how the GBHN was being devised; it had never been designed nor discussed in con...