Decentralization in Indonesia: Success or Failure

[Glen Wright]

Colleagues:  I recall that the approach that Indonesia used for decentralization was considered a model for how to do decentralization.  I am interested to know how well it has succeeded in the long term and what research papers there are that have evaluated the success or failure of this approach.  I would appreciate response from those with first hand knowledge of decentralization in Indonesia.  Thanks

[Napodano]

Glen,

for those like me who are not decentralization experts but are interested in the subject can you please upload papers on the Indonesia model for decentralization?

[Glen Wright]

Attached is a paper describing the Indonesia "Big Bang" approach to Decentralization and identifies many of the issues that this approach was designed to change.  I am interested to know how well the political, administrative, and fiscal decentralization has progressed over the past decade given the political changes that have occurred in Indonesia.