Regional Governments, Good Governance and Corruption Eradication in Indonesia

Abstract

Regional government has important role in realizing good governance and free from corruption. These conditions will only be achieved through the fulfillment of certain preconditions and must look to the characteristics of regional government that in accordance with the form of the country. This paper will give a picture of prerequisites that must be met by regional governments in Indonesia from various theoretical perspectives and a description and analysis of the construction of the law on regional government. This paper concludes that regional government efforts to achieve good governance are still have to take a very long way to go.

Keywords: regional government, good governance, eradication of corruption, public accountability, community participation

JEL Classification: D73, E61, G38, H70, K23, N45, R58