<![CDATA[Musrenbang, Indonesia's tiered participatory planning forum, is meant to ground local development plans in community needs, yet only a small share of its proposals reaches the final work plan and budget. This study traces the root cause of that aspiration-allocation gap in Bitung City and formulates a recommendation within the city's own authority. The gap is reframed as a failure of institutional architecture rather than of participation quality. The study applies qualitative policy analysis of regulations, three cycles of Musrenbang records, field observation, and the participatory budgeting literature. Problems are prioritized through an urgency, seriousness, and growth appraisal; causes are traced in two levels; and four alternatives are assessed with cross-checked feasibility criteria. The root cause is the absence of a binding norm that converges community proposals, council aspirations, and mayoral priorities through transparent, data-based scoring. A mayoral regulation establishing a convergent Musrenbang architecture is the most systemic option and needs no additional fiscal space under the 2026 transfer contraction.]]>
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