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IPCOS Activity Reports

IPCOS conduct various activities to achieve its Goals. Often organized in cooperation with other local or international organizations, IPCOS activities range from in-house discussions, Seminars, Roundtable Discussions, Public Debates, Small Group Meetings (SGM), Trainings, etc.

You can find reports from various IPCOS activities here.

 

Indonesia memiliki keragaman dengan ribuan pulau memiliki nuansa tersendiri dalam corak budayanya. Keanekaan budaya ini melahirkan pula keberagaman pola fikir dan karakter khas tiap daerahnya. Agar keberagaman itu tetap harmoni dan tertib maka kaidah dan norma menjadi hal yang sangat penting. Hukum adalah wujud dari kaidah dan norma yang jadi dasar interaksi sosial. Namun, seringkali aturan hukum dibuat hanya untuk menguntungkan pihak yang memiliki kuasa atau status sosial ekonomi yang terhormat. Padahal, hukum adalah aturan untuk menjaga ketertiban, yang seharusnya bersifat adil dan bijaksana. Adil memang tidak harus sama rata, tapi setidaknya memberikan  porsi yang setara yang sesuai dengan martabat kemanusiaan. Munculnya hukum-hukum yang dianggap ‘tidak adil’ itu tanpa disadari masyarakat telah menimbulkan persoalan tersendiri. Pemahaman yang keliru tentang kaidah agama atau adat yang dicampuradukan dengan substansi hukum positif menyebabkan timbulnya penafsiran ganda tentang arti kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara. Ini terlihat dari sekitar 154 kebijakan daerah yang diterbitkan ditingkat provinsi 64 kebijakannya telah secara langsung ataupun tidak telah mendiskriminasikan perempuan. Diskriminasi terjadi karena penafsiran para pembuat kebijakan dan aturan terkotak pada kepentigan politiknya dan melupaka konstitusi negara yang telah melahirkan dan menyatukan Indonesia yang beragam. Komisi Nasional Penghapusan Kekerasan terhadap Perempuan sebagai satu lembaga negara yang melindungi hak-hak konstitusional perempuan melakukan upaya meminimalisasi dampak dari peraturan daerah yang mengeksploitasi dan mengkriminalisasikan tubuh perempuan.

 

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Reformasi pada 1998 membuka pintu demokrasi, walaupun hakikat demokrasi belum berkembang di Indonesia. Namun, banyak pihak berupaya membangun demokrasi, baik dengan mengusung kegiatan pemberdayaan masyarakat (public empowerment) maupun dengan menyelenggarakan pelatihan bagi aparatur pemerintah mengenai tata pemerintahan yang baik (good governance), serta dengan memperjuangkan pembentukan dasar hukum bagi partisipasi masyarakat dalam proses formulasi kebijakan publik dan perencanaan pembangunan. Tak kalah penting adalah terdapat kalangan yang memperjuangkan Hak Asasi Manusia (HAM) yang menjadi hak mendasar manusia itu sendiri dan terdapat juga kalangan yang mengusung peningkatan porsi anggaran publik bertahap yang akhirnya dapat melebihi alokasi anggaran aparatur. Kesemuanya terakumulasi dalam kebijakan pemerintah yang terhimpun dalam berbagai program. Program kebijakan pemerintah yang dijalankan sekarang ini khususnya bidang hukum dan pelayanan publik, merupakan persoalan dan tantangan besar untuk mendorong partisipasi warga negara dalam proses kebijakan di tengah masyarakat dan pejabat pemerintahan yang terbiasa hidup dan bekerja dalam sistem feodal-otoriter.

 

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Elections are essential to democracy. The processes and institutions involved in elections, be it legislative or executive at national or local level, must bear a certain degree of confidence in order for the election results to be accepted, creating authority and bringing legitimacy.
Recent years have witness the rise of election monitoring activities by citizens as the final vanguard of democracy. Monitoring by groups of local citizens can help in detering violations and promoting the integrity of the election process and its results.
IPCOS have been involved in election monitoring since the 1999 General Election by providing trainers and consultants to Election Monitoring Organizations of various scales, both national and local, great and small. This involvement includes actively supporting the Jakarta chapter of Independent Election Monitoring Committee (KIPP Jakarta) in planning, organizing, recruitment and training, including providing handbooks and reference materials for election monitors.

With the advent of local election for chief executives (PILKADA), the majority of election monitoring operations will shift from a national scale operation to one a a smaller local scale. National election monitoring organizations will have to accommodate this change and strengthen their local chapters. The change will also give birth to new local election monitoring organizations.
Election monitoring operations are by nature highly-centralized, catering to the needs of monitoring national elections. This situation caused local chapters of national election monitoring organizations to be sidelined and play only a relatively minor role in planning for such operations. On the other hand, new emerging local organizations are foreign to planning and managing a monitoring operation due to their sheer inexperience.

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Direct election of executive chief—president at national level and governor and regent/mayor at local level—is one of significant, first-time event in Indonesia’s transition to democracy. Local elections have been conducted in 12 provinces and 263 regencies/municipalities throughout 2005-2006, and are scheduled to be carried out in 21 provinces and 180 regencies/ municipalities throughout 2007-2008. As a rule, the candidates make political promises on what they will deliver after they take office. To convert political promises into program, development planning and budgeting is a critical phase. Major candidates have little technical know-how in this phase, so that they depend upon the bureaucrats. This is one reason political promises are not reflected or materialized in development program and local government budget. At the same time, the society or the voters have no capacity to control the newly elected local governments, whether or not they keep their political promises. In other words, development planning and budgeting remains the elites’ exclusive domain.1 People lack of knowledge and capacity to engage in development planning and budgeting.

Since development planning and budgeting remains the elite’s exclusive domain, political promises made by political parties or executive chief candidates during the campaign cannot be materialized. State or local government budget is the most tangible reflection of development plan of either the central or the local government. It is no secret that annual budget of major local governments throughout the country indicated that at least 68-70 percents were allocated to public officials and civil servants expenditures, while the utmost 30-32 percents went to the people.

We choose the venue in the city of Serang, Banten Province for the following reasons; First, the governor of Banten elected for November last year. Public participation of Banten Province in decision making process—let alone in development planning and budgeting—is insignificant. The post-election of Banten’s Governor, therefore, would be the right time for implementing that objective. Second, located about two hours ride on road from the city of Jakarta, the two cities Serang and Jakarta affect each other in political, social and economic aspects.

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Laporan penyelenggaraan seminar hasil kerjasama IPCOS dan Departemen Dalam Negeri (Depdagri) bertajuk "Pelayanan Publik yang Berkualitas sebagai Instrumen Strategis dalam Memelihara Integrasi Bangsa" pada tanggal 4 Desember 2006.

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