NGOs and the Health Budget Allocation in Indonesia: Analysing NGOs Movements in Influencing Budgetary Policy
Abstract
In 2009, the Indonesian Government enacted Act 36/2009, concerning Health. One of the main points within the Act is that the government should allocate 5% for health in the state budget (APBN). In fact, according to the Finance Ministry of the Indonesian Republic (2015), from 2010 to 2015, the health budget was only 3.3% on average. The literature shows the successfulness of NGOs to influence the change of government budget allocation (International Budget Partnership, 2000; Robinson, 2006). This research aims to examine why Indonesian NGOs failed to influence allocation of the health budget to 5% of the state budget during 2010-2015. There are two Indone-sian NGOs, which are examined as case study, namely Seknas FITRA and Pattiro. The data are collected from their regular publications such as policy brief and media press release. The result shows five main conditions that make NGO advocacy to health budget does not work; they are lack of donor support, limited strategy, low media pressure, weak collaboration, and poor evidence.References
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