Exploring Digital Legislation Concepts and Practices: Inspiration for Indonesia City Government

Abstract

—Both in global and local context, cities have become more important politically, economically and socially. With rapid growth of information and communication technology (ICT) over the last decade, human relations have revolutionized, creating new possibilities of encounter and connectivity, as well as the new way for strengthening cities government and citizen relations. The cities government have started to use ICT to foster citizen engagement with broader and deeper contributions in political decision-making process for achieving openness and transparency. Innovative digital and mobile technology facilitate solutions for government to respond demand participation including informing, consulting and engaging citizens during legislation cycle process. However, the development of e-participation in the digital city context still have primary challenge and requires strong vision and commitments from all of the city stakeholders for legislation making process more digitally and participative. This paper tries to elaborates a literature study of conceptual publications on the subject of eParticipation in term of legislation process with the time frame of 2013–2018. Its objectives are to track recent theoretical and practical development in the field, to reveal constraints and limitations the concepts, and to offer some suggestions for city government in Indonesia for developing digital legislation implementation strategy.