Editing Provinces of Indonesia (section)

==Background==
Article 18 paragraph 1 of the [[Constitution of Indonesia|1945 Constitution]] states that "the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia is divided into provincial regions and those provincial regions are divided into regencies and city, whereby every one of those provinces, regencies, and municipalities has its regional government, which shall be regulated by laws." 

According to the Law on Regional Government (UU 23/2014) the authority of the Provincial Government includes:

# Development planning and control;
# Planning, utilization, and community peace;
# Implementation of public order and public peace;
# Provision of public facilities and infrastructure;
# Handling the health sector;
# Education and allocation of potential human resources;
# Handling social problems across regencies/cities;
# Services in the field of manpower across regencies/cities;
# Facilitating the development of cooperatives, small and medium enterprises, including across districts/cities;
# Environmental control;
# Defense services, including across regencies/cities;
# Population and civil registration services;
# Government general administration services;
# Investment administration services, including across regencies/cities;
# The implementation of other basic services that cannot be carried out by regencies/cities; and
# Other mandatory affairs mandated by laws and regulations.

The authority of the provincial government are government affairs which are located across regencies/municipalities, government affairs whose users are across regencies/municipalities, government affairs whose benefits or negative impacts lie across regencies/municipalities, government affairs which use more resources. efficient if carried out by the province.

Each province has a [[local government]], headed by a [[List of current governors in Indonesia|governor]] and a [[Legislature|legislative body]] (DPRD). The governor and members of local representative bodies are elected by popular vote for five-year terms, but governors can only serve for two terms. The general election to elect members of the DPRDs is conducted simultaneously with the national general election. Previously, the general elections for Governor and Vice Governor were not held simultaneously. However, since [[2015 Indonesian local elections|2015 regional head elections]] have been held simultaneously. Under the plan, simultaneous partial local elections were held in [[2017 Indonesian local elections|February 2017]], [[2018 Indonesian local elections|June 2018]] and [[2020 Indonesian local elections|December 2020]], culminating in simultaneous elections for all local executive posts in [[2024 Indonesian local elections|November 2024]] and then every five years.