Abstract

The issue of inter-regional development imbalances and fiscal disparities into the current fiscal decentralizationissues. The toughest challenge in building fiscal decentralization not only gives funds to local governments, butcreating impact of improving the quality of public services and economic growth. Transfer to the area hasincreased every year. However, this increase has not been maximized to reduce poverty, equitable distribution ofinfrastructure, fiscal gap, and competitive regional economy.Research funds for fiscal decentralization in some countries have done long before the implementation ofregional autonomy. The result will vary according to the characteristics of the area in the country. In addition toa variety of research results, the implementation of regional transfers caused disagreement. Indonesia has adiversity of characteristics and distribution of a wide area. An interesting question is whether the increase intransfers to the regions to encourage regional development through capital expenditure area.The study uses a quantitative approach that is explanatory research with two research data is local governmentthat receives DID for three consecutive years and areas that do not pay attention DID streak. Regression analysis involves five independent variables, transfer funds DAU, DAK, DBH, DID, BOS seta dependent variable is thearea of capital expenditure. The research data come from reports on realization of the budget and Transfer ToThe Financial Statements year period 2012-2014.The first test results prove DAU, DAK, DBH, and DID have a significant effect on capital spending area withprobability signifkansi each less than 0.05. These results are in line with the theory of fiscal federalism. BOSwhereas no significant effect on capital spending area with p-value of 0.379. BOS as the provision of basiceducation aid has not been able to provide flexibility to the budget to increase the use of capital expenditure. Theresults of the second test with the data local governments do not pay attention DID streak gives similarity with theresults of the first test except variable DID no significant effect on capital spending. All variables simultaneouslyaffect the area of capital expenditure.

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