Characteristics Local Government and Government Performance : An Empirical Examination of the Local Government in Indonesia (original) (raw)

Characteristics Local Government and Government Performance : an Empirical Examination of the Local Government in Indonesia. The role of local government since regional autonomy become greater. The local government has the authority to regulate and manage their own government. The implications of the implementation of regional autonomy is essentially created of the local governments independency. The level of independence of the region is highly dependent on the characteristics of the local government. Therefore the aim of this study was to examine the effect of the characteristics of the local government which is composed of the size of the local government, the regional welfare, general allocation fund and capital expenditure. Size of the local government is proxied by total assets, the regional welfare is proxied by local revenue or called PAD and general allocation fund is proxied DAU. During the period 2009 -2010 there are 42 local government financial reports are complete to b...