Government bureaucracy, especially the implementation of local public services into the public spotlight due to the lack achieves effective results, transparency, and the lack of assurance services. The performance of the public service is still low, especially the attitude and behavior of the Ministry apparatus less attentive to the moral principles in the conduct of its work. Government officials as civil servants and the Royal Society still looked at the issue of the ethics of bureaucracy, i.e. morality as an element that is less important to the world of public service. The purpose of this study was to assess the public service, especially service of Building Permit (IMB) through the application of ethical values based on local wisdom, include; honesty, scholarship, adherence, and persistence. Assessing the problem with a phenomenological approach, namely, the researchers describe the experience done and experienced by the informants both IMB nomination processes, as well as the manufacture of IMB. The results showed that the attitude and behavior of a bureaucratic apparatus in the service of IMB remain low because there is still a bureaucratic practice of pathology seen from indicators of application of the values of honesty, scholarship, adherence and persistence. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s4p419