Good Governance and Its Role in Developing Local Administration Law No. 59 of 2012

Abstract

Although the Local Administration Law is based on decentralization, as it granted legal personality to local councils and established a system for the direct election of municipal council members, it did not eliminate the crisis of mutual trust between local citizens and local councils, which led to their reluctance to participate democratically at the local level. Therefore, the local administration government is necessary to achieve effective participation, whether in the stage of electing members or in the stage of the local councils' work by attending sessions or expressing an opinion in submitting proposals or making and implementing local administrative decisions. Therefore, local administration governance is what achieves transparency, eliminates corruption, and consolidates direct democracy at the local level.