PENGUATAN FUNGSI LEGISLATIF DAN EVALUASI KINERJA BIDANG PENGANGGARAN (Studi di DPRD Kota Batu)

Abstract

Changes in performance-based budgeting system (performance budgeting) that pro-motes community participation, provide an important role in Parliament as represen-tatives of the people drafting process, in accordance with Law no. 17 of 2003 on StateFinance. Implementation of the people’s rights in the budget can be realized in com-munity involvement in participatory planningand budgeting process. This study aimsto (1) to know  legislators understanding in Batu City and its implementation to thefunction  of budgeting,  (2)  to  evaluate  the  performance  of budgeting  in Batu City.Using a qualitative approach, results of this study are: (1) Legislators’ understandingin Batu City tend to function as a means of budgeting “bargain†with local govern-ment, and  lack of  touch on  the  substance  to  the public welfare,  (2)Parliament hasused “Alat Kelengkapan Dewan† associated with  the  budgeting  of  the  “BadanAnggaranâ€, frequently board members’s budget is more  than  the amount of budgetapproved by the municipal government of Batu City. But this condition still happenedbecause the government afraid of the revenue and expenditure budget (APBD) notapproved by parliament.

Keywords: budget, parliament batu, legislative functions