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About
CBMS - Indonesia
Regional autonomy provides local
governments in Indonesia with additional rights and responsibilities. On
one hand, they are given more discretion in designing their budget like
in determining how much they want to spend on health and education
sectors. On the other hand, since they are now directly elected in a
'one man, one vote' system, they have more responsibility to their
constituents. One significant issue in Indonesia is the targeting of the
poor and making sure they receive the assistance that they need. In
order to target the poor at the lowest level- the household- government
officials need a monitoring system that is conducted by the community.
The pilot CBMS in Indonesia is an
attempt to strengthen the pre-existing CBMS conducted by the BKKBN
(National Family Planning Coordination Board) whose main purpose is to
monitor the implementation of the family planning program. In the pilot,
the aim is to improve and enrich BKKBN's indicators and measurement
techniques to be able to measure family welfare better.
The measure will improve BKKBN's
methodology in three main areas: (a) local specificity, which is crucial
considering Indonesia's size and heterogeneity; (b) family ranking based
on their welfare, which will help the government to prioritize aid on
the poorest families first; and (c) possibility of manipulation by
village leaders who usually prefer their village to be considered poor
and thereby receive more aid form the government
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Project Activities
- Conduct of a consultation workshop
with various stakeholders to solicit their comments, suggestions and
critiques on the research instruments.
- Design and pretest of research
instruments.
- Conduct of an enumerators training.
- Processing and Analysis of data.
- conduct of a workshop to disseminate
results and promote the importance of having a local monitoring system
and the advantages of adopting a CBMS-type monitoring system.
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Partner Institution
CBMS Indonesia is being implemented by
the SMERU research institute with BKKBN as partner. BKKBN is the
government agency responsible for monitoring family planning activities
in Indonesia. For this reason, it has developed a CBMS that has cadres
in almost every village in Indonesia. In 2001, BKKBN was decentralized
and is now under the authority of district governments, except the
Central BKKBN office in Jakarta which is still under the national
government.
This development is considered
important since BKKBN has the infrastructure in lace and it is the most
likely state institution to assume control of the CBMS at the national
level if and when it is scaled up. Furthermore, cooperation from
respective district governments has been secured. This is crucial
because in the regional autonomy era, they are the ones that will decide
whether to adopt the system or not.
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Contact Information
Inquiries regarding CBMS-Indonesia may
be sent to:
Dr. Sudarno Sumarto
CBMS-Indonesia Project Director
Address: SMERU Research Institute, Tulung Agung 46,
Jakarta 10310, Indonesia
Tel#: +6221-31930850
Email:
ssumarto@smeru.or.id
Website:
www.smeru.or.id
Advisor
Asep Suryahadi
Research Team Members
Akmadi
Hastuti
Daniel Suryadarma
Nina Toyamah
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