BEST PRACTICE IN PUBLIC SERVICES:

BADUNG REGENCY EXPERIENCE

I Made Bram Sarjana

The Government of Badung Regency, Bali Province, Indonesia

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 Geographic Position of Badung
Regency
Indonesia

Badung Regency is located in the Island

of Bali, which is situated between Java
Bali Island Island and Lombok Island 2
 Brief Overview of Badung Regency
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- Badung Regency is located on the southern part of Bali island

- Total area: 418,52 km² (7,43% of Bali Island)
- Population: 402.260 (2008)
- Consist of six sub districts: Petang, Abiansemal, Mengwi, North Kuta, Kuta, South Kuta
- Three main economic sectors: tourism industry, agriculture, handicraft industry
 Development Area
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Base on its topography, vegetation, ecology, and

socio-economic situation, Badung Regency is divided
into three areas of development:

Northern of Badung:
Consist of Petang sub district, which functions as an agriculture
area and forest conservation area

Central of Badung:
Consist of Abiansemal Sub district, a half part of Mengwi and
North Kuta Sub district. This area of development serves as an
agriculture area, handicraft industry centre, and public services
centre at regency scale.

Southern of Badung:
Consist of another half part of Mengwi and North Kuta Sub
district, also Kuta and South Kuta Sub district. Main economic
activitiy in these areas is tourism industry.
 Background in Implementing
Best Practices
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 The implementation Regional Governance Act No 32 year 2004 and the direct
election system of head of local government which brings:
 Opportunity:
 Greater autonomy in formulating public policies
 Policy is made to solve real problems at local level
 Challenge:
 People’s greater expectation for a better public services, social and
economic development, quality of life
 The Government of Badung Regency observes that the region have economic
potency for development, that are:
 Natural resources: develop agriculture
 Socio-economic resources: develop cultural tourism
 Creative economy: develop handicraft industries
 The three main economic sectors are highly interconnected, therefore best
practices are needed to manage these sectors in order to generate welfare.
 Supports to Implement Best
Practice
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 Programme:
 Internal: internal observation
 External: focus on improving health, education, economy, and public
infrastructure
 Funding:
 Proportional
 Scale of priority
 Step by step, and sustainable
 Organisational
 Synergy among government agency
 Community
 Involvement in planning
 Involvement in activity
 Supervision
 Areas of Best Practice
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In delivering public services, we put attention to

some development areas, such as:
 Local Traditional Organization Mobilization

 Infrastructure Development

 Agriculture Business Revitalization

 Local Traditional Organization
Mobilization
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 Best practice mainly put at human development:

 Development should be started from human

 In Bali, the core of people’s activity is located in traditional organization

such as traditional village. The same situation also applied in
agriculture, where farming land are managed by Subak (Balinese
traditional farmer organization)
 Most of population live in rural area, within traditional village, and live
with traditional values and culture
 Local traditional culture has become a uniqueness, which supports
cultural tourism, handicraft industry, and agriculture.
Local Traditional Organization
Mobilization
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 Form of best practice:
 Giving an economic stimulus by distributing 10% of regional income from
regional tax proportionally to 46 villages, 120 traditional villages, and 190
subak in Badung Regency. This stimulus is given to generate people’s
productivity in economic, social and cultural activities. Through this
scheme each year these groups earn:
 Rp 100 million for traditional village
 Rp 75 million for village
 Rp 10 million for subak
 Pattern of utilization:
 40 % : parhyangan (religious) to support religious and cultural activities, culture
coservation
 40 % : palemahan (environmental) to maintain the environment
 20 % : pawongan (humanity), as source of capital for rural economic activity
 Results
 The dynamics of social-cultural activity: artist groups in every village
 Employment opportunities in rural areas: cooperatives; Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises
 Distribution of Regional Income
from Regional Tax
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Fiscal Year 10% from Regional Tax allocated to

Villages, Traditional Villages, and Subak
2005 Rp 32.887.281.400
2006 Rp 29.931.052.986
2007 Rp 41.543.411.716
2008 Rp 42.356.113.584

Sumber: Finance Department Badung Regency

 Infrastructure Development
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 Reasons:
 The increasing level of social-economic activities within rural
areas, and between rural-urban area
 To increase environment hygiene, stimulate investment-
economic growth-employment opportunities
 Form of best practice:
 Allocate regional budget annually to build, maintain and
improve roads, bridges, irrigation system, drainage, public
schools, health care facilities, step by step and in sustainable
way.
 Infrastructure Development
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Results:
- Increasing level of human life quality
(Human Development Index)

Year : 2005 2006 2007

71.6 72.7 73.64

- Economic growth rate:

Year : 2005 2006 2007

5.61% 5.03 6.85%
Source: Statistics of Badung Regency
 Gross Regional Domestic Product
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PDRB/Kapita 2005 Rp 17,980,501.99

(Current Market 2006 Rp 19,312,318.65
Prices)
2007 Rp 21,560,045.48
PDRB/Kapita 2005 Rp 11,117,063.76
(Constant Prices) 2006 Rp 11,406,435.35
2007 Rp 11,908,409.88

Source: Statistics of Badung Regency

 Agriculture Business
Revitalization
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 Reasons
 Agriculture is an important economic sector:
 Provide food for the people, also to supply tourism industry
 Accounted for 10% of local economy
 How?
 Forest conservation to preserve water supply
 Publish spatial planning regulation to conserve farming land
 Tax subsidy for farming land’s tax
 Capital enhancement, giving aid in the form of plant seeds and agriculture
equipments for Subak
 Establishing Vocational School in agriculture
 Buying some of the farmers crops through employee’s cooperative
 Results
 The production of rice reached 135.294 tonnes in 2008, exceeded
provincial target which was 109.729 tonnes.
 Obstacles in Implementing
Best Practice
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 Government side:
 Human Resources:
Regional autonomy requires local government to be creative,
innovative, having a global horizon. However, some government
apparatus do no have such capability.
In Badung Regency, government employees have been
encouraged to strengthen their capacity by sending them to
training, and postgraduate study (self finance, cost sharing,
scholarships).
 Community side:
 Some are still pay less attention to development activities, put
whole responsibilities to government
To deal with this issue, Gov of Badung Regency have been trying
to stimulate the people to participate actively.
 Conclusion
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 The implementation of Local Governance Act No 32 year

2004 and Direct Local Government Election bring challenges
and opportunities for regional development process at local
level.
 Best Practice is the answer to overcome challenges and
maximize opportunities in improving people’s quality of life.
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