The Two Edge Knife of Decentralization
Abstract: A centralistic
government model has become a trend in a number of developing countries, in
which the ideosycretic aspect becomes pivotal key in the policy making. The
situation constitutes authoritarianism, cronyism, and corruption. To break the
impasse, the decen-tralized system is proposed to make people closer to the
public policy making. Decentrali-zation is also convinced to be the solution to
create a good governance. But a number of facts in the developing countries
demonstrates that decentralization indeed has ignite emerges backfires such as
decentralized corruption, parochialism, horizontal conflict,local political
instability and others. This article elaborates the theoretical framework on decentralization’s
ouput as the a double-edge knife. In a simple words, the concept of decentralization
does not have a permanent relationship with the creation of good gover-nance
and development. Without substantive democracy, decentralization is indeed
po-tential to be a destructive political instrument threating the state’s
future.
Author: Ahmad Khoirul Umam
Journal Code: jpsosiologigg110002
