ANALYZING SOME PROBLEMS CAUSED BY NEGLECTING CITIZEN’S PARTICIPATION IN FORMULATING LOCAL GOVERNMENT REGULATION

Abstract

Government usually has some spesific goals in arranging a work-plan, that are to improve people’s prosperity level and also to create justice among them. Because the work-plan concerns on the citizens, They are supposed to give their participation in the formulation of work-plan draft. Based on that reason, it is needed to analyze some problems caused by neglecting citizen’s participation in formulating local goverment regulation. Constructive paradigm was used in this research. It is often used in philosophical tradition as a method of reading the text and its empirical reality. The design of this research was legal research which concerned on analyzing social-legal problems. In collecting the data, social-legal approach, qualitative approach and field-note were used in this research. Based on the result of this research, the researcher found that it was important to make a rule in the process of formulating regional regulation. The regulations need citizen’s active participation. If there were no participation, It would rise some problems, such as juridical problems, structural problems, and cultural problems. Those problems would make invalid or null and void regulations. Therefore, the citizens are expected to control the implementation of regional regulation by giving some suggestions and critics to minimize those problems above.

Keywords

• citizen’s participation
• local government
• regulation
• public service