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Decentralized Power in Indonesia

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Aug 07, 2013
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BJ Habibie, who took over as Indonesia's president from the strongman Suharto in 1999, breathed life into the country's decentralization in 1999, giving power to 470 districts and cities to elect their local leaders and for those leaders to institute local bylaws.

It was such decentralisation, and the competitiveness of ensuing national, regional, and lo…

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