The Dynamics of Educational Services in the Decentralization Era in Lampung Timur Regency

Lampung Timur Regency is one kabupaten in the Province of Lampung that has created in 1999, just beforethe implementation of decentralization era in Indonesia. The regency has been a split from its “mother district”,the Regency of Lampung Tengah, as to have more efficient and effective services as well as more equaldevelopment among its region. This paper will evaluate the educational services, involving elementary schools,middle and high schools during decentralization era since 2000 to 2015. Using the time serial statistical datagathered from the district’s monographs, and also the standard set by the National Standard, this paper willcompare the availability of the services in two ways comparison: inter-time and inter-regional comparisons andthe combination of both of them. The result shows that local government is more focused on improving middleschool than elementary and high school services in decentralization era