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184 KPI Congress XI<br />

opened up for a greater proportional representation <strong>of</strong> civil society<br />

groups working as local administrators <strong>and</strong> in local councils.<br />

Research findings:<br />

1. Assuming local administrator’s position under the stipulation that<br />

local administrators must be directly elected by the people bestows<br />

strength <strong>and</strong> stability upon local administration <strong>and</strong> uplifts political<br />

leadership <strong>of</strong> local administrators. However, in local government’s<br />

executive boards, a very small proportion <strong>of</strong> women’s representation in<br />

the position <strong>of</strong> vice president appointed by local administrators is<br />

observed.<br />

2. Local administrative organization is a system <strong>of</strong> separation <strong>of</strong><br />

powers between local government <strong>and</strong> local council but the local<br />

administrative organization law does not prescribe a checks <strong>and</strong> balances<br />

mechanism for local council. Consequently, local councils have been<br />

weakened <strong>and</strong> could not perform oversight functions to examine local<br />

government’s exercise <strong>of</strong> power.<br />

3. Regarding local council’s functions, the only principal role <strong>of</strong><br />

local council is to enact expenditure budget ordinance <strong>of</strong> local<br />

administrative organization. It is observed that there are very few<br />

enactments <strong>of</strong> other local ordinances to control <strong>and</strong> regulate the<br />

provision <strong>of</strong> public services <strong>of</strong> local administrative organization.<br />

4. Even though local government has more dominant administrative<br />

roles over local council but local government’s exercise <strong>of</strong> power in the<br />

provision <strong>of</strong> public services is restricted under the frameworks prescribed<br />

by central authorities. The central authorities require that the<br />

administration <strong>of</strong> local government be scrutinized under a participation<br />

process engaged by other organizations within local administrative<br />

organization’s territory as follows:<br />

4.1 The development process <strong>of</strong> annual expenditure budget<br />

ordinance <strong>of</strong> local administrative organization requires<br />

formulation <strong>of</strong> a local development plan that has passed<br />

through development processes <strong>of</strong> development plans at

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