The document discusses participatory planning for sustainable development in local governments in Indonesia. It outlines problems with existing local planning and budgeting processes and proposes a participatory process involving multi-stakeholder consultation to develop sustainable local development plans. The process aims to allocate budgets based on priority sectors identified in the plans rather than routine spending. Some successes include creating long-term development planning documents and more equal budget distribution across municipalities. Challenges remain in institutionalizing the models and moderating political influences on planning implementation.

1. PARTICIPATORY PLANNING
in Sustainable Development
Joko Purwanto (Bojonegoro Institute)
Elisa Sutanudjaja (Rujak Center for Urban Studies)
Generic

2. Basic Problems
• Expenditure in local budget/APBD does not fully refre to local
planning (RPJMD)
• Local budget expenditure that does not focus on achieving the
goals and trapped in the routine of local expenditure. Does not
provide multiplayer impact
• RPJMD that always change every 5 years (inline with the
succession of the new head of municipal/bupati) tend to be lack
of continuation between each of leadership period
• Budget tends to be dominated by the same sectors every
year, infrastructure for instance
• Budget based on account (pagu), not performance (Blora)
• The priority for expenditure does not fully refer the to RPJMD
• Unequal distribution of expenditure, dominated by big districts
where ―influential‖ people reside
• Group domination take control on the region planning scheme

3. PROCESS
• Multi-stakeholders consultation and coordination
• Agreement with the Bupati
• The formation of Core Team
• Stakeholders Capacity Buildining
• Participatory action research
• The creation of focused, clear, and relaistic vision of
Municipality: describing all stakeholders interest (joint vision of
stakeholders)—begins with SWP vision
• Drafting the Sustainable Local Development Planning (RPDB)
• Content penetration (integrating RPDB to the local planning
and budgeting scheme). Incorporated in to RPJMD
• Open consultation (Friday dialog)

4. GOALS
• To build the regioan with sustainable develpoment scheme
(not depend on just one sector-oil/gas) based on participatory
planning
HOW?
• Conversing oil/gas fund in to:
– Social development: education and health
– Local economic development: strengthen the existing
income source (agricultural-based), and building
sustainable income source that does not related to oil/gas.

5. TYPES OF INNOVATIONS
• Sustainable local development planning
Dokumen RPDB
• Concentration on annual budget based on sectors
RPJMD ABPD
• Municipality Indicative Account : to make equal in
distributing budget
Bupati regulations/Keputusan Bupati No 10A/2011

6. RESULT
• The creation of sustainable development planning
documents (Bojonegoro 15 years, Blora 5 years?)
• Focused-budgeting to specific sectors (basic health
and education services and the developments of
agricultural and industrial-based SMEs), according
to the midterm planning
• Fair percentage of budget distribution to
municipality
• Budgeting based on development priority

7. LESSON LEARN
• Takes time, takes cost: Participatory Planning process
requires long time and often costly
• Representation: representation based on regional and the
number of people represent become a significant variable
in developing participatory planning mechanism
• Equality and trust between multistakeholder becoming key
point in participatory planning
• Synchronization of mechanism for the long process of
participatory planning with existing and stable local
planning

8. FUTURE CHALLENGES
• Moderating interventions from central government and private
sectors in to local development planning
• Moderating political process that often bending planning
implementation
• Encouraging the increase of demand for participatory planning in
village level
• Equality of stakeholders status in local planning, for example, farmer
groups vs business groups
• Implementation of planning often hindered by political process
• Replicating the model
• Institutionalizing the model