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Abstract

This article examines the institutional role of territorial chambers in fiscal governance through a comparative constitutional analysis of Indonesia's Regional Representative Council (DPD) and South Africa's National Council of Provinces (NCOP). While the DPD was established to strengthen regional representation following Indonesia's decentralization reforms, its legislative role in fiscal policymaking remains institutionally constrained. Existing scholarship has primarily focused on the DPD's constitutional status in debates on bicameralism, with comparatively little attention to how constitutional design shapes the role of territorial chambers in fiscal governance and intergovernmental fiscal relations. Using a normative legal research method that combines statutory, conceptual, and comparative approaches, this study examines the constitutional frameworks governing the legislative authority of the DPD and the NCOP in matters relating to fiscal governance. The analysis demonstrates that differences in constitutional design significantly influence the capacity of territorial chambers to participate in legislative processes concerning intergovernmental fiscal relations. While the DPD performs primarily consultative functions, the NCOP occupies a more institutionally integrated role in legislative scrutiny and deliberation affecting provincial fiscal interests within South Africa's constitutional framework. This study contributes to the literature on bicameralism and fiscal decentralization by advancing the concept of fiscal bicameralism, emphasizing that meaningful territorial representation in fiscal governance depends on constitutional arrangements that effectively integrate territorial chambers into fiscal legislative processes rather than on the mere existence of a second chamber.

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