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The Development Paradigm in Indonesia
There's basic change on development process and governance in Indonesia since 1998, at the end of Orde Baru. The changes were started with two regulations that related with central-regional relationship. There's UU 32/2004 and UU 33/2004. UU 32/2004 explains about Local Government and UU 33/2004 explains about Financial Balance between Central and Regional Government. Both of regulations with the others have change development policy pattern. It's marked by the strength of central government along 30 years before economics crysis in 1997, that become more autonomy at regional level now. The changes get the momentum that's called globalization. It starts with more opened relation among countries and free trading era that became worlds trend in 21st century. Uniformity of globalization make local potential stronger. Local development as shape of localism become an optional development strategic in 5 last years.
Planning Paradigm Change
Planning paradigm has been changes from rationalistic tradition to approach based on process. Planning is defined as public decision making process. It related with making purpose and solving problems of community. Planning is how to brings aspirations become real actions.
Planning also changes from just making blueprint become community learning process and resources mobilisation to reach a purpose. This changes effect on planner role and planning institutions in policy making. In earlier planning tradition, planner is technocrat that have basic role but in contemporary paradigm, planner placed as facilitator of policy making. Participatory planning is keyword from this paradigm change.
University as Research and Development Center
In 2000, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional make a new university development paradigm that called RAISE++. Based on it, each university in Indonesia must develop by itself that based on some principals. There're relevance, academic atmosphere, internal organization, sustainability, efficiency, effectivity and productivity.
University have to make new innovations to support its sustainanbility. Now, partnership with industries, government institutions, and community become need that can't be avoided by university.
There's university autonomy policy that forced university to make partnership and network with the others outside the college. It's become place for knowledge and technology to be applicated.
