Indonesia

Indonesia is the biggest archipelago country in the world. It covers around 1.904.556 square Kms and the total population nearly to 240 millions people (the 4th biggest below China, India and USA). It comprises 17.500 islands, small and large, and the largest are Sumatera, Jawa, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and part of Papua. Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia and located at Java Island.

1. Central Government consists of President as the executive leader and The House of Representative, called DPR, as the board of legislative.
2. Provincial Government consists of Governor as the executive leader and Local House of Representative (DPRD) as local the board of legislative . Each province comprises several Cities/Regencies.
3. City/Regency Government lead by a Major, named Walikota (City Mayor) or Bupati (Regency Mayor), and its partner Local House of Representative (DPRD), as the local board of legislative.

For the time being, Indonesia has in total 33 provinces and subdivided into 456 Cities/Regencies. Bali is the beautiful island and mostly visited by tourist all over the world and Bali is one of Province in Indonesia.

Indonesia, Source: Wikipedia

Since the President Soeharto regime fallen down through the successful movement organized by university student in 1998, we named it reformation, the political situation in Indonesia has been changed and getting more democratic than before. The role of House of Representative become more significant and its contribution to deliver state policies is not dominated anymore by the executive. One of the important roles of the House of Representative is to establish the State Budget (APBN) proposed by the President. Besides, the House of Representative also has responsibilities in producing and revising the Laws.

The composition of Provisional People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) has been changed by adopting the bicameral system through the development of Senate (DPD). However, DPD still has limitation in authorities and they are still fighting to achieve more significant role playing.

Indonesia has been also changed the governmental system of decision by reducing the centralized decision making and distributed it to the Local Government. We usually name the change of the system is Otonomi Daerah (Local Autonomy). According to the Law, the Cities/Regencies Government are appointed to have the real autonomy, although some of the authorities still left in Provincial Government. Provincial Government acts on behalf of Central Government to supervise all the Cities/Regencies Government inside their province and assist to solve the conflicts that could be appeared among them.

The President of Indonesia now is Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudjoyono, and we usually call him SBY. His Vice President is Mr. M. Jusuf Kalla. Mr. SBY is the sixth President after  Mr. Soekarno (1945-1967), Mr. Soeharto (1967-1998), Mr. B.J. Habibie (1998-1999), Mr. Abdurrahman Wahid (1999-2001) and Mrs. Megawati Soekarnoputri (2001-2004).



East Java

East Java is one of Indonesian province located at the eastern Java island. The capital city of East Java is Surabaya. This province has the most population in Indonesia, around 37 million peoples, and this is the 2nd biggest population below West Java. Surabaya is the 2nd biggest city in Indonesia and the first is Jakarta. East Java Province has 37 Cities/Regencies Government inside.

East Java, Source:Wikipedia

According to the history, long before Indonesian Republic officially formed in 1945, Indonesian well known as Majapahit Empire (1293-1498) and central government of the empire was located at East Java.
The Governor of East Java currently is Mr. Imam Utomo (1998-2008) and he assisted by Vice Governor Mr. Sunaryo.

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