DPRD Legislation Function As a Response in Handling Issues in Community in DPRD of South Kalimanatan

Abstract

The rationale of the study has been the issues of DPRD legislation functions as a response in handling issues in communityin DPRD of South Kalimantan. The study attempts to offer solutions towards resolving problems in handling issues of producing policies that can nurture community’s trust and involvement as the target groups as a part of good governance principles implementation in order that public policy formulation can be seen as an instrument to achieve government objectives of public values.The study aims at describing and analysing: 1) The quality of legislation products produced by DPRD; 2) Issues in community that have been responded by DPRD; 3) People’s trust and participation as a part of well-managed governance; and4) the factors that cause legislation failure in coping with issues in community. The results of the study shows that: 1) The quality of legislation products produced by DPRD is oriented to the needs in community; 2) fail legislation is the postponed legislative responses in coping with issues in community because the local regulation is clashed with central regulation, hence need to be completed in the following year 3) people’s trust and involvement towards members of parliament, NGOs and community is sufficient, 4) the factors that are analysed show that legislation policies are not failed, they are only delayed.          It is recommended that to be able to overcome the problems of legislation functions of DPRD as a response of coping with community’s issues in DPRD of South Kalimantan, the planning of regulation framework should be preceded with inputs from community in order that the quality of lehislation products produced by DPRD of South Kalimantan oriented to people’s needs.

Keywords: Legislation function, issues in Community, Legislation Products Quality