Bureaucratic Reform For Participatory Development: Bureaucrary and Community in Implementing The National Program for Community Empowerment Urban in Surabaya, lndonesia

This paper concerns the relationship between bureaucratic reform and participatory development. It examines whether bureaucracy is becoming more citizen/community1 focused by exploring the implementation of the National Program for Community Empowerment Urban (PNPM-Urban) in Surabaya, Indonesia. PNPM-Urban is the first nationwide poverty reduction program for urban areas in Indonesia. Together with PNPM-rural, it signals the shift away from centralised governance processes towards participatory development. The paper critically examines the extent to which the reforms have resulted in more benefits for the community by analysing the interface between bureaucracy and community in the community driven PNPM-Urban