| Abstract: | Political institutions play key roles in rapidly developing states. This article describes the complex and overlapping responsibilities
of Indonesian government institutions and explains how they affect policy design and implementation in two policy arenas:
primary education and soil/water conservation. It suggests that the struggles for control over local level implementation
between general (territorial) regional government and branch offices of specialized, central ministries seriously constrain
performance in these two sectors.
Dwight Y. King is associate professor of political science and associate of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern
Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115 (internet: dking@niu.edu). He continues use research on how the structures of national
bureaucracies and the policies governing them affect civil servants’ behavior and economic development, as well as the political
economy of bureaucratic reform. |
