Sound Governance in the Development of Mamminasata Metropolitan Areas in South Sulawesi Province
Abstract: The direction of
development in Indonesia has strongly integrated with the concept of good
governance started from the strengthening of international market that is both
imperialist and colony thereby contradicting to the tradition of developing
countries. This leads to the establishment of sound governance as an
alternative concept to improve the government's capacity to innovate in policy
and administration. The development of Mamminasata Metropolitan area in South
Sulawesi province experiences difficulties in implementing the coordination,
integration, synchronization and cannot accommodate the whole event in order to
realize the interconnection of development across districts / cities, whereas
the central government makes this as a National Strategic Areas (KSN) and
leading area in the East Indonesia. This study aims to explore and analyze the
sound governance practices in the development program of Mamminasata
Metropolitan area focusing on five dimensions, namely process, structure,
values, management, and policy. The results show that 1) in the process
dimension, the stakeholders involved in the Mamminasata development program
establish inter-regional cooperation and coordinate externally and internally
of the area ranging from planning to the implementation of development
activities; 2) in the structure dimension, the government has established clear
organization and regulation in regulating the development process. 3) in the
value dimension, Mamminasata development program is based on the responsiveness
of local government and has up-holded justice in accordance with the potential
of each area; 4) in the management dimension, the government personnel has
already had knowledge about the Mamminasata concept, but they are still
experiencing problems in the use of technology because of limited resources;
and 5) in the policy dimension, the government has encouraged the public to
participate directly in policy making and implementation of development
programs. Therefore, it can be concluded that the five dimensions of sound
governance has been practiced in the Mamminasata Metropolitan area development.
Author: Firdaus
Journal Code: jpadministrasinegaragg160005
