Towards the Local Government’s Integrated Accountability Framework, 1st ed. 2021 A Critical Lesson from Socio-Environmental Issues in Indonesia

This book shows the growing phenomenon and the broad impact of socio-environmental conflicts in the grassroots communities?farmers, fishermen and urban poor?in Indonesia, as the effects of government?s development strategies based on neoliberal and New Public Management (NPM) views without a clear accountability system or socio-environmental accountability practices and reports are becoming apparent. Inspired by the emancipatory socio-environmental accounting discourse, which focuses on the socio-local context in developing alternative models of accountability based on local views and people's aspirations, this book uses research methodology based on the principles put forth by Indonesian national hero and critical scholar Tan Malaka to develop a framework of integrated accountability for the local government. 

Habib Muhammad Shahib is a lecturer and a researcher at Fajar University, Indonesia. His research focuses on measuring the societal and business effects of socio-economic and environmental activities of entities in the private and public sectors. He is also a professional accountant, an auditor and a  sustainability report practitioner in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.