with the results of Purbarini and Gregorius (2015)
and also Sholikhah and Wahyudin (2014), which
found that PAD partially has a positive effect on
capital expenditure. This indicates that the higher
PAD received by the local government will have an
impact on the increase of the local government
capital expenditure.
The size of capital expenditure will be influenced
by the PAD received by the local government. This
is because the capability of capital expenditure in the
regions will always need to consider the source of
the local revenue and whether it will be sufficient to
spend in the region or not. A local government with
high PAD can contribute substantially to a region's
capital expenditure, such that development programs
designed by the government will be well
implemented due to good financial support from the
PAD. This is in line with the government
expenditure theory, which states that an increase of
government revenue will be in line with the increase
in government spending.
The second hypothesis states that population size
has a positive effect on capital expenditure.
However, the results of the statistical test do not
support the hypothesis; the results show that
population size has a negative effect on capital
expenditure. The results of this study thus contradict
Shelton's (2007) study from the United States, which
states that population size has a positive influence on
all local government spending, as well as Ayodele’s
(2014) research from Nigeria stating that population
size has a positive influence on all government
spending. The differences in these research results
may be caused by the different conditions between
local governments in the United States and Nigeria
and the conditions of local governments in
Indonesia.
The results of this study are aligned with the
results of Devita et al. (2014), which state that the
number of residents negatively affects the direct
spending of city government in Jambi province
where capital expenditure is part of direct spending.
Areas that have high populations are usually
identical with regencies and municipalities that have
better infrastructure when compared to areas with
relatively low population. Good infrastructure will
reduce capital expenditure, as capital expenditure is
in part expended to support infrastructure in an area.
The population in Java is relatively high compared
to other areas outside of Java. According to Devita
et al. (2014), the rising population actually reduces
capital expenditure because of the proportion of
income actually diverted to operational expenditure.
The third hypothesis states that population
density has a positive effect on capital expenditure.
However, the results of the statistical test differ from
the hypothesis and state that population density has
no effect on capital expenditure. The results of this
study contradict the results of research conducted by
Nurlis (2016), which found a positive relationship
between population density and the allocation of
capital expenditure. This result also does not support
the findings of Huda (2015), which state that
population density has a negative effect on the
allocation of capital expenditure. However, the
results of this study are in line with the research of
Aziz and Wulandari (2014), which state that
population density statistically has no significant
effect on capital expenditure.
The results of this study indicate that in
allocating capital expenditures, city/district
governments in Java do not consider population
density as a factor. According to Aziz and
Wulandari (2015), population density has no effect
on capital expenditure because of the unequal
distribution of population density with the fiscal
capacity of the local government’s finances. In
addition, it is possible that there were other
programs that were deemed more urgent than
infrastructure development at the time. However,
population density remains one of the aspects that
must be considered by local governments if they
wish to achieve a good Human Development Index
to improve the regional economy. If population
density is not considered, in the long run thiscan
lead to social problems that will in turn become
problems for local governments.
5 CONCLUSIONS
The conclusions of this study are as follows:
1. Own-Source Revenue (PAD) has a positive
effect on capital expenditure. An increase in
PAD will increase the amount of capital
expenditure of city and district governments in
Java.
2. Population size negatively affects the capital
expenditure of city and district governments in
Java. Increasing the population size will actually
decrease the amount of capital expenditure on
the part of these governments.
3. Population density has no effect on capital
expenditure. Any increase or decrease in
population density does not change the amount
of capital expenditure on the part of city and
district governments in Java.