Book Review: Hubert J. B. Allen, Cultivating the Grass Roots: Why Local Government Matters (International Union of Local Authorities and All-India Institute of Local Self-Government, 1990), pp.xi, 156. No price (paper)

The ﬁ nancial relationship between central and local government can be deﬁ ned as a system that regulates how some funds were divided among various levels of government as well as how to ﬁ ndsources of local empowerment to support the activities of the public sector.Fiscal decentralization is the delegation of authority granted by the central government to theregions to make policy in the area of ﬁ nancial management.One of the main pillars of regional autonomy is a regional authority to independently manage theﬁ nancial area. State of Indonesia as a unitary state of Indonesia adheres to a combination of elementsof recognition for local authorities to independently manage ﬁ nances combined with the element oftransferring ﬁ scal authority and supervision of the ﬁ scal policy area.General Allocation Fund an area allocated on the basis of the ﬁ scal gap and basic allocation whilethe ﬁ scal gap is reduced by the ﬁ scal needs of local ﬁ scal capacity. Fiscal capacity of local sources offunding that comes from the area of regional revenue and Tax Sharing Funds outside the ReforestationFund.The results showed that the strengthening of local ﬁ scal capacity is in line with regional autonomy.

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Tinjauan Aspek Budaya pada Pembelajaran IPA: Pentingnya Pengembangan Kurikulum IPA

INSANIA Jurnal Pemikiran Alternatif Kependidikan ◽

10.24090/insania.v12i2.246 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Fajar Hardoyono

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Human Resources ◽

Learning Process ◽

Local Community ◽

Cultural Background ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

Local Authorities ◽

Indonesian Government ◽

Learning Attitude ◽

Do So

: Education deals with enlightening people and developing human resources. The reasecher concluded that cultural background of students influences their learning attitude in the school. Therefore, the developing learning process of Natural Sciences insist student to elaborate principles of Natural Sciences without ignoring cultural valuesof local community. The policy of decentralization of Indonesian Government had authorized and legitimated local authorities to develop curriculum based on the local cultures. To do so, each local government through the officers of Education has to create a curiculum by involving some curriculum experts, instructures, natural sciences theachers, and the lectures of universities who adequately understand learning model of Natural Sciences.

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Spatial and Institutional Analysis of the Voivodships Expenditure on Culture in the Years 2003 – 2015

e-Finanse ◽

10.2478/fiqf-2019-0021 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 67-75

Author(s):

Adam Mateusz Suchecki

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Public Administration ◽

Local Governments ◽

Local Level ◽

Institutional Analysis ◽

The State ◽

Cultural Institutions ◽

Location Quotient ◽

Local Authorities ◽

National Heritage

AbstractFollowing the completion of the process of decentralisation of public administration in Poland in 2003, a number of tasks implemented previously by the state authorities were transferred to the local level. One of the most significant changes to the financing and management methods of the local authorities was the transfer of tasks related to culture and national heritage to the set of tasks implemented by local governments. As a result of the decentralisation process, the local government units in Poland were given significant autonomy in determining the purposes of their budgetary expenditures on culture. At the same time, they were obliged to cover these expenses from their own revenues.This paper focuses on the analysis of expenditures on culture covered by the voivodship budgets, taking into consideration the structure of cultural institutions by their types, between 2003-2015. The location quotient (LQ) was applied to two selected years (2006 and 2015) to illustrate the diversity of expenditures on culture in individual voivodships.

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