Author's account as a member of the Indonesian delegation of the Helsinki agreement, and his support peace in creating Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement
A loan or foreign debt is still important for Indonesia due to the lack of the domestic funds, especially tax in order to finance the country. However, it management does not effective due to the bad governance that it based on the politic motive than economic, and the official’s government tends to corrupt, collusion, and nepotism (KKN). This paper aims to describe the performance of the manag…
Good Corporate Governance on Islamic banking is one of the important pillars that must be created to overcome the distrust among stakeholders. This paper aims at describing the concept of corporate governance in Islamic perspective and its application to Islamic banking. The method of analysis in this paper uses descriptive and qualitative analysis through the study of some literatures related …
This paper explores linkages between governance and poverty in Indonesia for the period 2001 to 2008. The dimensions of poverty reduction policy, which include poverty, inequality, and growth, demonstrate that the poor do not benefit proportionately from economic growth. It also shows clearly comparing with inequality, in which the results of the study shown that a strong link exists betwee…
This paper has examined good governance in promoting investment in the South Sumatera Province. In the context of decentralization, it is evident that the local government (Kabupaten/Kota) seeks to enhance its fiscal capacity to provide sufficient public services to the community. In this regard, the policy of raising fiscal revenue (PAD) has been undertaken through broadening local tax and r…
Good governance in health financing is very important in line with the government policy to assist the poor people in accessing the afffordable health care services. The importance of governance in health financing lies in the fact the Indonesian Government provide health services scheme for about 74 millions poor people. Local government of Bandung City as well as Makassar City are among the l…
Good Governance is an important foundation to the attainment of development goals in a transitional democracy such as Indonesia. Good governance as a concept is exercised through its principles. Major institutions attempt to seek ways to put governance in practice have concluded that the principles of transparency and accountability are the two most crucial principles to apply. However, fai…
Good Governance plays a critical role towards the sustainable of economic development in Indonesia. This is simply because it determines the efficiency, integrity, and effectiveness of public sector management, and also accountability and transparency of corporate and financial governance in the private sector. However, the direct concern on this matter seems to be limited only on the bureauc…
Immediately after the downfall of Suharto, Indonesia embarks on a big bang reform to answer the demand of Reformasi. Changes across political, legislative and institutional spectrum were instituted. Along with these changes, good governance concept was introduced. This article first will attempt to problematizes the meaning of governance and governance reform in a transitional democracy suc…