SBY Special Envoy Admits To Poverty Reduction, Increase Fuel T

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 23:06
Jakarta, Seruu.com - Special Envoy of the President for Poverty Reduction, Harbrinderjit Singh Dillon, said the rising prices of fuel oil (BBM) subsidy will increase the number of poor people in Indonesia. Although no hard data, he estimated the number of poverty increased 1.5 per cent of the population or 3.5 million people. Currently the number of poor people reached 30.02 million (12.49 percent).

"Quoting the World Bank that the data also suggested that rising inflation would not be up to 1 percent, due to budget savings the government is also quite large if the fuel goes up," said HS Dillon when contacted by reporters, Wednesday (07/3/2012).

According to him, anticipating the government to prevent a surge of poverty by providing compensation only temporarily and only reduce the additional suffering of the poor and vulnerable poor. "The most basic is the government's efforts are nothing more fundamental to the poor," he said.

He suggested that the government learned lessons from the neighboring country, Malaysia. In that country, there are laws that regulate traders or entrepreneurs. In Malaysia, businessmen and traders should not take excessive advantage. Should be a reasonable profit.

Another suggestion is that the government should start thinking about a lot of development in the sector involving the poor, such as agriculture and fisheries. Businesses in urban areas are also asked to no longer focus on small and medium enterprise sector, but the micro-enterprise.

"The government must prepare the poor to engage in business investment, particularly supporting the program MP3EI (Masterplan Economic Development Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia)," he said.

Anticipate that world oil prices continue to soar, the government plans to increase next April in fuel prices to Rp 6,000 per liter. Steps were taken to reduce the subsidy burden on the State Budget of 2012. The Government proposes increase in fuel coincided with an electric base rate increase.


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The Political Economy of Post-Reform

Where the post-reform political economy of Indonesia? Changes in the political world also brings about changes in the focus of attention of what knowledge is deemed important to know, developed, and was appointed to the public. One analysis in the reign of Suharto's got a lot of attention is the analysis of the political economy of the New Order. Books, articles, and seminars are produced and organized to understand how politics affects the allocation of resources through economic activity.

In the post-reform period, the analysis of political economy did not get much attention. Exploited the public's attention and scholars on the issue of changing the political system and governance development. Why is critical analysis of political economy? Patterns of use of power by using state institutions - not only government institutions but also institutions legislature - will affect the structure and activity in the economy, and will determine who gets the advantage of the economic pattern. Thus, analysis of political economy did not stop at the right or wrong use of public assets, but rather to see how these resources affect or be affected by the actors in the economic field.

Political economic analysis allows us to see whether, for example, the special relationship between a public authority with the power business will bring the country to bankruptcy or economic progress. Instrument interaction can vary, depending on the perspective used. However, analysis of political economy remains in essence, that the use of power derived from state agencies to direct resources in a particular direction. Three basic elements of political economy analysis is the degree of cohesion of the actors who use the power of the state, the selected instrument, model relationships with actors outside the state, particularly the conduct of economic management, and the latter is a resource management model resulting from the above three situations . It should be noted that this is a simple modeling.

In the eighties of the regime's perspective is very popular in analyzing the situation within a country. This is understandable because of the authoritarian regime is a prominent phenomenon in many developing countries. Perspective of the regime have assumed that there is a state of relative consolidation of the authorities in the country where they use the instrument in accordance with the 'ideology' and its importance. Policy instrument that is essential to analyze how the actors to protect its interests.

Models that were popular at that time - which is also applied to the Soeharto regime - is as follows. The elite in the government uses the instrument as a party to his power base. With the political parties do control the various fields of social affairs and parliamentary votes. The elite issued a policy framework for the development both economically and on how economic actors to get permission to do kegiatantya.

In this way the elite can choose economic groups which have benefited from state concessions. The clients use the concessions granted not only to compete with other economic actors, but also to act strengthening and transfer of resources through acquisition, merger, swap, and acquisition of SOEs. If economic actors have the ability to manage the business, then tumbuhlan certain business groups close to the political elite. Although the cause of serious inequality sistuasi, in many places this model nevertheless generate economic growth.

How the model of political economy at the moment and what are the consequences? Is that democratic political systems generate economic growth and equity is better? Whether the offender's economy received financial support from the country better?

Indonesia occurred post-reform movement in the positive state agencies to improve some aspects of governansi to encourage the improvement of business climate. Before the reign of President SBY, this movement is encouraged by the attention of various international agencies providing technical assistance and funding. At the time of SBY, the role of donors is reduced, but this motion was continued several presidential aides in the economy that have a high competence. Improvement was aided by a state instrument of reform impetus of the more common, however its weakness, in the bureaucracy. About five years later, for example, one focus is the improvement of service piblik business licensing in the area.

However, improvements in economic governansi was unable to prevent the occurrence of corruption is driven by the character of the political elite. Many cases of corruption in the parliament and ministries involving high-level officials in ministries and state enterprises that indicate the involvement of political parties. This suggests that there is a more limited mode of corruption, but through the strategic ministries and state-owned funds in the effort to reform the bureaucracy that existed at the level of the organization in general. This fact also indicates that the diversion of funds in the state fell more strategic group, the elements are more numerous party since the reforms. Strategic group of parties, political elites are not an elite group of solid, with a lot of interest. Thus, analysis of political economy can not use any assumptions on the relative solidity of a regime.

Own state policies often highlight the post-reform populism. Partly because of the encouragement of the phenomenon of poverty requires the state to allocate funds for basic needs. Populism emerged partly because of the need to look at the pro-people, and partly because of limited insight into the development framework of what Indonesia has to be developed beyond just a matter of improving the investment climate (still mainly a matter of licensing). Some studies, for example, have shown a tendency of de-industrialization in Indonesia.

If at the time of Suharto's regime, the pattern of political economy in which state-led economic development model has a particular, political economy "corruption" was still result in the growth of big business. This may not happen with the current pattern. Misappropriated funds or in-service learning her more used to the luxury of private life and political activities. Orientation and the capacity of politicians are now far from economic activity, even if it was money they planted a follow-up capital. Some members of the community come to enjoy this political money, but its consumption. Definitely different impact if the politicians were able to build populist economic program through the instrument of state policy. Communication between politicians and groups of employers who are not systematic and did not allow a minimum of good policy-making.

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Nama : Anisah Luthfi Aprianti
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