Bureaucratic inertia in dealing with annual forest fires in Indonesia
Eko Priyo Purnomo
A B D , Rijal Ramdani A B , B , Achmad Nurmandi A , Dina Wahyu Trisnawati C and Aqil Teguh Fathani B
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A Department of Government Affairs and Administration, Jusuf Kalla School of Government, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY), Yogyakarta, 55183, Indonesia.
B E-Governance and Sustainability Institute (ESI), Yogyakarta, 55183, Indonesia.
C Department of Agrotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY), Yogyakarta, 55183, Indonesia.
D Corresponding author. Email: eko@umy.ac.id
International Journal of Wildland Fire 30(10) 733-744 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF20168
Submitted: 29 October 2020 Accepted: 13 July 2021 Published: 13 August 2021
Journal Compilation © IAWF 2021 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND
Abstract
Indonesia has sustained annual forest fires since the 1990s related to land clearing activities for agriculture. The Indonesian Government has made substantial efforts to resolve annual fires by improving intergovernmental coordination at national and local levels. Overall, 96 government agencies are liable for controlling forest fire. This study explores local to central government’s bureaucratic reluctance in addressing forest fires, focusing on Riau Province, the most forest fire-prone region in Indonesia. Data were collected from 2015 to 2019 using participatory observation, engaging in meetings of key players; in-depth interviews with key heads of relevant agencies, officials, and NGOs; and a questionnaire for Social Network Analysis. The results show that there are seven influential institutions for addressing land and forest fires in Riau. However, the power of the decision-making process is concentrated at the level of the President and the Governor as the regional leader, which implies that large institutions involved in fire response have less power and responsibility owing in part to bureaucratic inertia as bureaucracy is overly centralised and less responsive. In the long term, devolution of government authority from the central to the local level is required to furnish front-line institutions with the power to deal with the fires.
Keywords: bureaucratic inertia, collaboration, coordination, forest fire, Indonesia.
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