Decentralization and Policy on the Authority of the State Government in Timor-Leste

: In principle, there are two forms of administrative policies, namely administrative policies based on law and administrative policies that are not based on law (deviation from the law). A policy rule based on law consists of a policy rule based on freiesermessen. This paper aims to reveal about the dynamics of decentralization policy-making in Timor-Leste which includes several aspects, namely: first, the issue of decentralization that is developing in Timor-Leste; second, actors with an interest in responding to decentralization issues; third, the dynamics of decentralization issues become the policy agenda; and fourth, the process of deliberating the decentralization policy agenda into a law. First, decentralization has become a public demand that the government needs to respond to immediately; second, the orientation of the policy institution actors has taken advantage of the issue of decentralization as a political commodity to fight for and or maintain certain powers in the government body; third, socialization, realization of local development programs, and consultations are used as ways to formulate a policy agenda, both a systemic agenda and an institutional agenda; and fourth, intervention from the interests of other official actors, as a result of the distribution of power, led to delays in discussing the decentralization policy agenda in the national parliament