Synergy of central & regional priority programs

Paser Land, Thursday 4/2/2016. Bappeda of East Kalimantan Province held a Bappeda coordination meeting in East Kalimantan 2016 h. Rusmadi added that the holding of this coordination meeting was intended to equalize perceptions in overcoming identification of challenges and improvement steps according to priority programs and activities to strengthen synergy between the central, provincial, district/city governments in East Kalimantan and between sectors in order to improve program implementation and to get input on efforts to improve priority programs.

While the purpose of the East Kalimantan Bappeda Coordination Meeting is to synergize the priority programs and activities of the central, provincial and district/city governments in East Kalimantan in overcoming problems and efforts to achieve development targets in the 2013-2018 RPJMD.

While the target to be achieved is the realization of an agreement between the Provincial Government and the Regency/City Government in the framework of the implementation of the priority program for the development of East Kalimantan Province in 2017.

12 East Kalimantan Province Priority Program 2017

1. Improving the quality of education administration;
2. Improving the quality of health services; 3. Acceleration of poverty alleviation;
4. Improvement and expansion of employment opportunities;
5. Populist economic development; 6. Acceleration of economic transformation;
7. Fulfillment of environmentally friendly energy needs; 8. Agribusiness Development;
9. Increased food production; 10. Improving the quality of basic infrastructure;
11. Bureaucratic Reform and Governance; 12. Increased environmental quality.

Exposure to the resource person

Submission of the speakers who were highly awaited by participants who attended the second session after the opening delivered by 2 speakers including the Director General of Fiscal Balance, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia, Rukijo, SE., MM with the title of the exposure "The 2017 Balance of Funding Policy Plan for East Kalimantan Province" and the second resource person of a political economy, Dr. Ichsanuddin Noorsy, B.Sc., SH., M.Si with the title of the presentation of "Strengthening of the Downstream Industry to Represent a Quality Economic Structure" which is packaged in the Talk Show agenda guided by a moderator who is experienced from TVRI Kaltim, Ardhana Riswari.

Exposure to Rukijo, SE., MM Director General of Financial Balance, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia said that the increase in the transfer budget to the regions and village funds through the basis of policy included:
1. The need to strengthen Indonesia's characteristics as a fiscal decentralized country.
2. The existence of the authority to implement government affairs has been submitted from the center to the region (in accordance with Law Number 23 of 2014 concerning Regional Government.
3. The need to increase the allocation of the transfer budget to the regions and village funds to support the implementation of Nawacita, namely ideals: Third: Building Indonesia from the periphery by strengthening regions and villages within the framework of the Republic of Indonesia; Move the domestic sector.
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Improvement of Transfer Policy to the Region (General Transfer Fund)

The General Allocation Fund (DAU) is a fund sourced from the APBN revenue allocated with the purpose of equitable financial capacity between regions to fund regional needs in the context of implementing decentralization in accordance with Law Number 33 of 2004 Article 1 Paragraph 21. As Equalization Grant DAU is an instrument of transfer is intended to minimize fiscal inequality The allocation of DAU is based on formula with the concept of basic allocation and fiscal gap (fiscal gap), which is the difference between fiscal needs and fiscal capacity in accordance with Law Number 33 of 2004 Article 27 paragraph 2.

The 2016 DAU (General Allocation Fund) policy is:
1. Apply the DAU formula consistently through weighting: basic allocation; Component of fiscal needs; Component of fiscal capacity. 2. Increasing equitable financial ability between regions (as an equalization grant) shown by the most optimal Williamson index, through restrictions on the portion of basic allocation and evaluating the weight of fiscal needs and fiscal capacity, with the direction of reducing fiscal inequality between regions.
3. The amount of the National DAU ceiling is set at 27.7% of the Net PDN stipulated in the APBN.

While the presentation of economists and political experts, Dr. Ichsanunddin Noorsy, B.Sc., SH., M.Si is more focused on providing input to the Provincial Government of East Kalimantan and Regency/City Government in East Kalimantan in managing natural resources that are very wise by paying attention to the sustainability of natural resource deposits in the regions.

Furthermore, these economists and political experts provide opinions and input for the regions, especially in the development planning sector that can improve the regional economy in order to improve the welfare of the people, so that the local government has strong economic resilience without having to depend on other regions and even foreign countries.

Ichsanunddin Noorsy added that it is no less important for the concentration of the state in running governments both central, provincial and district/city governments must be honest in making development planning and implementing it without any intervention from any party even from foreign countries, use natural resources and human resources as well as possible and wisely.

Implementation of the Bappeda Coordination Meeting in East Kalimantan in 2017 in the context of the preparation of the Regional Government Work Plan (RKPD) of East Kalimantan Province in 2018 in accordance with the results of the meeting of the Head of Bappeda of East Kalimantan Province, Dr.Ir.H. Rusmadi, MS together with all Heads of Bappeda Regency in East Kalimantan City will be held in Bontang City.

Public Relations Bappeda Province of East Kalimantan/Sukandar, S. Sos