Best Practice_badung Regency Experience

BEST PRACTICE IN PUBLIC SERVICES: BADUNG REGENCY EXPERIENCE

I Made Bram Sarjana The Government of Badung Regency, Bali Province, Indonesia

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Geographic Position of Badung Regency Indonesia

Bali Island

Badung Regency is located in the Island of Bali, which is situated between Java Island and Lombok Island 2

Brief Overview of Badung Regency 3

- Badung Regency is located on the southern part of Bali island - Total area: 418,52 km² (7,43% of Bali Island) - Population: 402.260 (2008) - Consist of six sub districts: Petang, Abiansemal, Mengwi, North Kuta, Kuta, South Kuta - Three main economic sectors: tourism industry, agriculture, handicraft industry

Development Area 4

Base on its topography, vegetation, ecology, and socio-economic situation, Badung Regency is divided into three areas of development: Northern of Badung: Consist of Petang sub district, which functions as an agriculture area and forest conservation area

Central of Badung:

Consist of Abiansemal Sub district, a half part of Mengwi and North Kuta Sub district. This area of development serves as an agriculture area, handicraft industry centre, and public services centre at regency scale.

Southern of Badung:

Consist of another half part of Mengwi and North Kuta Sub district, also Kuta and South Kuta Sub district. Main economic activitiy in these areas is tourism industry.

Background in Implementing Best Practices 5 

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The implementation Regional Governance Act No 32 year 2004 and the direct election system of head of local government which brings: 

Opportunity:  Greater autonomy in formulating public policies  Policy is made to solve real problems at local level

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Challenge:  People’s greater expectation for a better public services, social and economic development, quality of life

The Government of Badung Regency observes that the region have economic potency for development, that are: 

Natural resources: develop agriculture

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Socio-economic resources: develop cultural tourism

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Creative economy: develop handicraft industries

The three main economic sectors are highly interconnected, therefore best practices are needed to manage these sectors in order to generate welfare.

Supports to Implement Best Practice 6 

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Programme:  Internal: internal observation  External: focus on improving health, education, economy, and public infrastructure Funding:  Proportional  Scale of priority  Step by step, and sustainable Organisational  Synergy among government agency Community  Involvement in planning  Involvement in activity  Supervision

Areas of Best Practice 7

In delivering public services, we put attention to some development areas, such as:  Local Traditional Organization Mobilization  Infrastructure Development  Agriculture Business Revitalization

Local Traditional Organization Mobilization 8 

Best practice mainly put at human development:  Development should be started from human  In Bali, the core of people’s activity is located in traditional organization such as traditional village. The same situation also applied in agriculture, where farming land are managed by Subak (Balinese traditional farmer organization)  Most of population live in rural area, within traditional village, and live with traditional values and culture  Local traditional culture has become a uniqueness, which supports cultural tourism, handicraft industry, and agriculture.

Local Traditional Organization Mobilization 9 

Form of best practice:  Giving an economic stimulus by distributing 10% of regional income from regional tax proportionally to 46 villages, 120 traditional villages, and 190 subak in Badung Regency. This stimulus is given to generate people’s productivity in economic, social and cultural activities. Through this scheme each year these groups earn:   

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Pattern of utilization:   

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Rp 100 million for traditional village Rp 75 million for village Rp 10 million for subak 40 % : parhyangan (religious) to support religious and cultural activities, culture coservation 40 % : palemahan (environmental) to maintain the environment 20 % : pawongan (humanity), as source of capital for rural economic activity

Results  The dynamics of social-cultural activity: artist groups in every village  Employment opportunities in rural areas: cooperatives; Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Distribution of Regional Income from Regional Tax 10

Fiscal Year

10% from Regional Tax allocated to Villages, Traditional Villages, and Subak

2005

Rp 32.887.281.400

2006

Rp 29.931.052.986

2007

Rp 41.543.411.716

2008

Rp 42.356.113.584

Sumber: Finance Department Badung Regency

Infrastructure Development 11 

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Reasons:  The increasing level of social-economic activities within rural areas, and between rural-urban area  To increase environment hygiene, stimulate investmenteconomic growth-employment opportunities Form of best practice:  Allocate regional budget annually to build, maintain and improve roads, bridges, irrigation system, drainage, public schools, health care facilities, step by step and in sustainable way.

Infrastructure Development 12

Results: - Increasing level of human life quality (Human Development Index)

Year : 2005

2006

2007

71.6

72.7

73.64

Year : 2005

2006

2007

5.61%

5.03

6.85%

- Economic growth rate:

Source: Statistics of Badung Regency

Gross Regional Domestic Product 13

PDRB/Kapita (Current Market Prices)

2005 2006 2007

Rp 17,980,501.99 Rp 19,312,318.65 Rp 21,560,045.48

PDRB/Kapita (Constant Prices)

2005 2006 2007

Rp 11,117,063.76 Rp 11,406,435.35 Rp 11,908,409.88

Source: Statistics of Badung Regency

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Agriculture Business Revitalization 

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Agriculture is an important economic sector:  

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How?      

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Provide food for the people, also to supply tourism industry Accounted for 10% of local economy

Forest conservation to preserve water supply Publish spatial planning regulation to conserve farming land Tax subsidy for farming land’s tax Capital enhancement, giving aid in the form of plant seeds and agriculture equipments for Subak Establishing Vocational School in agriculture Buying some of the farmers crops through employee’s cooperative

Results 

The production of rice reached 135.294 tonnes in 2008, exceeded provincial target which was 109.729 tonnes.

Obstacles in Implementing Best Practice 15

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Government side: 

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Human Resources: Regional autonomy requires local government to be creative, innovative, having a global horizon. However, some government apparatus do no have such capability. In Badung Regency, government employees have been encouraged to strengthen their capacity by sending them to training, and postgraduate study (self finance, cost sharing, scholarships).

Community side: 

Some are still pay less attention to development activities, put whole responsibilities to government To deal with this issue, Gov of Badung Regency have been trying to stimulate the people to participate actively.

Conclusion 16

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The implementation of Local Governance Act No 32 year 2004 and Direct Local Government Election bring challenges and opportunities for regional development process at local level. Best Practice is the answer to overcome challenges and maximize opportunities in improving people’s quality of life.

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