Before Autonomous, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Suggest Transitional

Before Autonomous, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Suggest Transitional. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will propose in a grand design regional division of a transitional period which will last for one to five years, through the preparatory stages of formation.

Preparation areas will be established before a new expansion areas considered worthy of being an autonomous region. Proposed President Yudhoyono, who will be outlined in the government proposal during discussions with the House, expressed by the special staff in Regional Development and Local Autonomy Velix Wanggai Sunday (18/07/2010) night in Jakarta.

“Areas of this preparation is very important considering that approximately 80 percent of new autonomous regions was not yet able to function optimally for one to five years,” said Velix.

According Velix, 80 percent of new autonomous regions presented the President at a meeting of government consultations with leaders of the House of Representatives, last week, actually addressed to the 57 new autonomous regions are newly formed three years ago of the total 205 new autonomous region since last 10 years since the permissibility of the expansion area.

“The problem that many faced the new autonomous regions including transfers of personnel, equipment, consumer financing and Documents (P3D) that have not been performing well, the provision of facilities and inadequate infrastructure, public services are not optimal, yet the completion of delimitation and not yet completed General Plan document Spatial (RUTRW), “added Velix.

In fact, continued Velix, the government has always been paying attention. “From policy to technical assistance for regional organizations to fix the device, helping the settlement documents and consistent planning to allocate funds to balance the new autonomous regions,” explained Velix.

Therefore, to improve regional expansion policy in the future, the Government has completed the design documents Structuring Large Area (Desartada). “Hopefully, next month (August), the government together with the Parliament will start discussing the substance of the grand design pemekaraan areas nationally,” said Velix.

Velix be said, with a joint discussion, the policy of regional expansion in the future should be placed in three contexts, namely the strengthening of national integration, acceleration of economic development and improving the quality of public services. “From the side of the force of law, the substance of the draft of expansion area will be placed in the revision of Law No. 32 Year 2004 on Regional Government,” explained Velix.

And the Regional Balance Center

Velix further states, in line with the objectives the strengthening of national integration, the design of the expansion area will be to balance the two approaches, namely the expansion aspirations from below and from above skena rio expansion as a central government initiative.

“Because, during the last 10 years, a new autonomous formation scenario is only based on the aspirations of the bottom. As such, the national initiative will include the border areas between countries, the small outer islands and large areas, but less well populated areas other strategic, “explained Velix.

Velix asserted, thus the government and parliament have the same language in view and apply for future expansion areas, namely the selective and look at the technical and administrative requirements as well as substantive. Substantive that includes three things ranging from geography, demography and economic systems such as territory, local finance, regional security and political strategy.