This article explained transparency sets as a public policy to overcome asymmetric information in regional public finance that could lead to low public trust to local governments.. This referred to issues in local governments’ transparency such as defining the transparency, pressures for transparency, resistant behaviors, impacts of low transparency and alternative policies to improve financial transparency in Papua. Key words: transparency, regional finance, special autonomy.

This research aims to analyze the influence of accrual-based accounting standard, internal control system, and motivation of work on the quality of financial statements. The population were in 34 departments in Papua Province. The samples of this study were 65 people. The research method was used purposive sampling with criterion are the heads and the staff of sub-divisions of finance who participating in making financial report. Data collection was done by distributing questionnaires directly to each departments in Province of Papua. The analysis technique was used multiple linear regression. This study concludes that accrual-based accounting standard, internal control system, and work motivation have positive and significant effect on the quality of financial statements

This research aims to analyze the influence of asset management on the level of optimizing fixed assets (land and building) in local governments of Jayapura regency. Using purposive sampling method the sample to this research is 48 respondents. The variables are assets inventory, legal audit assets, asset valuation, and supervision and assets control. According to the results using the multiple linear regression showed that individually inventory assets proven has a positive and significant impact on optimizing fixed assets (land and building) which means in accordance with hypothesis, individually legal audit assets not proved has a positive and significant impact on the level of optimizing assets fixed (land and building) which means not in accordance with hypothesis, individually asset valuation proven have had a positive and significant impact on the level of optimizing assets fixed (land and building), supervision and control assets proven have positive and significant impact on the level of optimizing assets fixed (land and building). While the simultaneous analysis results show that the four variables namely inventory of assets, audit legal assets, asset valuation, supervision and assets control proved significant / give positive response to the level of fixed ground asset optimality (land and building) this is proven by the value of F count > F table. Keyword: assets inventory, assets legal audit, assets valuation, assets supervision and control, optimizing fixed assets (land and building).

The population in this study is regencies / cities in the Papua Province during the last three years, namely the 2015-2017 budget year, the data obtained is the LHP data that has been audited by theBPK. the sample used in all of these studies as many as 87 samples of local government financial reports are all existing populations in the sample. The data analysis method used in this study uses multiple linear regression analysis with the SPSS 16 program. This data is processed from June to the beginning of the 2019 julli in Jayapura City, Papua Province. The results in this study indicate that the age of the Regional Government has a positive effect on the level of disclosure of regional financial statements (LKPD). and on the Local Government Size, the Number of OPD, and also the Dependency Rate have a positive and insignificant effect on the level of disclosure while the auditfindings themselves influence the level of disclosure of the LKPD.

Auditors’ decision making is affected by their accountability in concluding their audit working process that required highly competences which can be gained through their sufficient experiences in the audit field. This research is aim to examine the influence of accountability and competence of auditors/government supervisory on the quality of audit. As population in this research is 47 people of Employees who work in Provincial Inspectorate Office of Papua and Inspectorate office of Jayapura City which involved in the examination as the Auditors/Supervisory of Government. A non-probability sampling methodology is used based on the certain criteria (purposive sampling) for distributing 47 questionnaires to the Auditors/Supervisory of Government. The result of this research indicate that the devotion in profession has a significant effect on the quality of audit, while social obligation has a significant effect on the quality of audit. Similarly, the knowledge and working experiences have significant effects on the quality of an audit respectively.