The Strategy and Political Resources in the Changing of Spatial Policy
Abstract: The spatial planning
policy as included in the Local Regulation No. 6/2006 on the spatial planning
of Makassar in 2005-2015 has changed from the original blueprint. The policy
changing occurred on decisions or programs, but not on institutional
regulations. The decisions or programs on spatial planning that were different
from the original policy were visible on the licensing decisions in the
Development Region I and Development Region III. The purpose of this research
was to analyze the changing of the spatial planning policy that was resulted
from the behavior of the advocacy coalition who competed with each other in the
utilization of strategy and political resources, which was assumed to be
affecting the policy output. The study results indicated that the changing of the
spatial planning policy in Makassar was resulted from the competition between
the major advocacy coalition and the minor advocacy coalition in influencing
the policy. The Major Advocacy Coalition used the combination of strategy and
political resources more in comparison to the minor advocacy coalition. The
utilization of strategy from each advocacy coalitions was effective in several
cases but ineffective in other cases. The difference in the effectiveness of
the utilization of strategy was on the interests in each cases. In the projects
that were based on public interests, the Major Coalition was more systematic in
advocating the policy core beliefs, but in other projects that were based on
private interests, the Major Coalition was likely to withdraw.
Author: Aslinda, Muhammad
Akmal Ibrahim
Journal Code: jpadministrasinegaragg150045