Promoting Equity Through Redesigning Central–Regional Relations in the Era of Budget Efficiency.

A focused discussion held by GREAT Institute highlighted that regional autonomy is now seen by participants as increasingly nominal, as strategic authority and budget management have been recentralized to the national government. Economic disparity is evident in the dominance of Java, which contributes 56 percent of national GDP, while other regions remain trapped in fiscal dependence. This condition has left local governments with limited control over local resources, making autonomy more of a slogan than a system with genuine financial sovereignty for regional public welfare.

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