jurnal ilmu administrasi negara - perpustakaan universitas riau

joins a task force, (5) team – managers meet regularly in permanent committees to
coordinate activities, and (6) integrating role or department – a new role or department is
created to coordinate activities of functions or division.
In the context of development planning, federal or central government delegate
authority of planning to local governments while requiring them to align their
development plan with national development plan.
Relating to this principle, Usui &
Alisjahbana (2004) argued that decentralization, by its nature, gives the highest priority to
local government to respond to local demands. At the same time, local development
plans need to be consistent with those on provincial and central governments. However,
even with decentralization fully in place, some elements of top-down intervention are
needed to ensure the priority of higher levels of government is considered at the local
level. The challenge is to integrate key elements of national and provincial development
plans with local contents.
Mohamed and Appalanaidu (1998) studied the information systems for
decentralization of development planning in Malaysia to determine the extent of
delegation of authority by the central government to the state and district level
government in planning the development projects in Malaysia. They found that the
central government has successfully delegated its authority to the state and district levels
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