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An Economic Research Professor of the Indonesian Institue of Sciences (LIPI),    Sarip Hidayat at the Inauguration of Research Professor at Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Auditorium Jakarta on Thursday  (26/07) said the Regulation of number 22 Year 1999 on Regional Government has given authority for the regional government to organize resources by looking at the potential and regional diversity. Regional Autonomy  is expected to provide holistic authority and responsibility for development and equity. However, he said it needs conceptual reformation so that the policy can answer the existing challenges.

“Conceptual reformation and decentralization policy and Regional Autonomy is pragmatic-parcialistic and it is built based on a series of events. It is assumed that it is difficult to answer the national problems.  The solution of both concepts and decentralization policy and the right Regional Autonomy  is for the sake of the nation and it is not for the government. It is holistic and must be built based on a series of event,” Sarip Hidayat said.

Sarip Hidayat  also explained it needs synergy with mutual supporting policy  between the central and regional governments to build Indonesia. He said the dynamic relation between central and regional governments is also expected  to become the support in creating equity in development. (VOI/Ahmad Faisal/AHM)