Purpose -This paper aims to identify some key points about the practice of political dynasties and poverty in the era of regional autonomy through literature studies.Design/methodology/approach -This research uses literature study method and is organized into three parts. The first is to elaborate reflections on regional autonomy, political dynasty and substantive poverty. The second is to decipher the reality and the practice of political dynasty in the era of regional autonomy and poverty level. The third is to analyze the political dynasty and poverty in the era of regional autonomy. The last is the policy advices.Findings -The start of dynastic leadership began before the era of direct elections in 2005 and continued after the direct elections, so that the decentralization system provided space to build a political dynasty. Regional autonomy poses the risk of full control by local elites and the birth of local ruling elites, or it indicates the presence of local elite dominance both economically and politically in the region. The autonomy era had an impact on the decrease of poverty in the area of regeneration political dynasty. This is evidenced by the decrease in the percentage of poverty index from year to year, although not yet out of the category of poor areas (based on national index), or only 4 regions from 12 regions that belong to non-poor areas. Although the average dynasties count is able to reduce poverty each year, the income distribution in majority of the political dynasty regions is uneven.Originality/value -This research is a preliminary study on the political dynasty of regeneration type in Indonesia which is a hot issue in the era of regional autonomy as well as can add empirical evidence about the debate about political dynasty and poverty.

This study aims to analyze the geographical and infrastructure aspects of poverty in districts and cities in Riau Province, Indonesia. This study used statistical data from 2003, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2014 correspondingly published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), Indonesia. There are 1,687 villages collected into cross-sections and time series or pooled data. This study proposed a geographical perspective to identify the poverty level. Based on the model specification tests through the three analyses with the pooled least square (PLS), the study found that the regression of the determinant coefficient (R2) is 0.0492, indicating that the geographical and infrastructure variables can explain 49.2 % of the output percentage variation in poverty levels. The telephone network is a factor that has a significant positive effect on the poverty variable. One variable used, the river as a transportation network, has a significant positive effect, which indicates that the usage of rivers for the purpose of transportation can increase the poverty level in the Riau province of Indonesia.

The delegation of central government authority to local governments can encourage policy or program targeting to be more targeted because it is indispensable for poverty reduction. Education and health are considered to be capable of alleviating poverty. This paper aims to find out the amount of budget based on Act no. 20/2003 Article 49 on National Education System (Sisdiknas) and Act no. 36/2009 Article 171 on Health in the area of political dynasty of regeneration type (vertical) and to find out the average decrease or increase of poverty rate per year in regional of political dynasty. This is descriptive research, using the ratio analysis of regional expenditure per function. This paper shows that during the period of 2005-2017, all the allocations of regional education budget of political dynasties (regeneration type) have been in accordance to the law. While the allocation of health budget, there are 3 regions from 12 regions of political dynasty that have not fulfilled the law, in addition, the area of political dynasty is able to reduce poverty with an average decrease of 0.2% -1.5% per year, and based on the average national poverty is 8 out of 12 regions of political dynasty in the poor category.

This study aims to analyze the effect of public spending, macroeconomic variables, and BPK opinion on economic growth. This study is motivated by the inequality of fiscal policy effectiveness between regions in Indonesia in influencing the economic growth of different regions, the ability of local governments to attract foreign investors, and the transparency of regional financial management in designing development programs to encourage regional economic growth. The analytical tool in this study is a dynamic panel regression model with data from 2008 to 2017. The results of this study show that, in the short term, the population affects regional economic growth, while in the long term, the economic growth is affected by the number of people, the poor, General Allocation Fund, health budget, foreign investment and BPK opinion. The findings of this study are that in the long term the General Allocation Fund becomes an obstacle to economic growth, this is because the general allocation funds is widely used to cover the lack of funds for routine regional activities, thereby reducing activities for development programs. Another research finding is that fiscal policies carried out by local governments make a small and ineffective contribution to promoting economic growth.

The purpose of this study is to analyze determinant of foreign investment in Indonesia for the period of 1990 to 2014, before and after the implementation of regional autonomy. The analysis method is using a panel data regression throughout Indonesia with provincial analysis unit, Entrophy Theil Index and GIS analysis, which is divided into two intervals ie, before the 1990-2000 regional autonomy, and after the 2001-2014 regional autonomy. Factor that affect the determinant of foreign investment in Indonesia are Market Size indicators (GDP of province and population of province), Resources indicators (labor force and human capital) and Competitiveness indicators (installed electric power, long road, wages, and level of economic openness). The analysis result using GLS fixed-effect method showed that only two significant indicator of the determinant of foreign investment which are Resources and Competitiveness indicator. The results of the analysis before and after the regional autonomy shows that the pattern of spread of foreign investment between the provinces in Indonesia tends to be spread with the dispersal patterns shaped "U" upside down. This reflects that the spatial distribution pattern of foreign investment uneven. These findings provide the conclusion that decentralization has not had a positive impact on the development of foreign investment in Indonesia.