Government Bureaucracy Research Articles

Political Inclusiveness Degree of State Civil Apparatus and Bureaucracy on Mayor and Deputy Mayor Elections in Palu City 2015

This research is based on the condition of the phenomena of the state civil apparatus and the bureaucracy in the election of the mayor and deputy mayor of Palu which is marked by the political events that occur. Simultaneous regional head elections in the province of Central Sulawesi. The theory used is the participation theory from Michael Rush and Philips Althoff and the bureaucratic theory from Max Weber. The aims to analyze how the participation of the community participates in the implementation of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor Elections in 2015. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. Informants were obtained in a purposive way with the criteria of state civil servants, bureaucracy, totaling 7 informants. The results showed that the degree of political inclusivity of state apparatus in the 2015 mayoral and deputy mayoral elections was as follows: state apparatus in the election of the mayor and deputy mayor of Palu were in a neutral position, However, there are several realities where there are emotional and work relationships that are always under pressure, either directly or indirectly, making it difficult to make political decisions individually and have to be involved in the state apparatus situation itself. The Palu city government bureaucracy, which is inclusive in political decision-making, is marked by intrigue from the mayor and deputy mayor officials because based on the law, they hold power over the SKPD, which should be held by the city secretary.

Bureaucracy Pathology on the Regional Secretariat of Makassar City in Providing Service

The study focused on how the attitude of the government bureaucracy apparatus in the regional secretariat of Makassar city in providing service to the societies. The study is entitled “The Bureaucracy Pathology in Regional Secretariat of Makassar City in Serving Communities”. The study is expected to give input to the government in evaluating the bureaucracy in the Regional Secretariat of Makassar City. The research aims to describe and explain the attitude of the bureaucratic apparatus in giving service to the community in the Regional Secretary in Makassar City. It is a descriptive study collecting data from two methods: library research and field research. To obtain objective results, data from the field were analyzed qualitatively. Quantitative complementary data were obtained from field reports and notes. Based on the research findings, types of bureaucracy pathologies found in the Regional Secretariat of Makassar City included the apparatus being indiscipline toward the time, they were less responsible, they showed some discrimination, and they were less polite in serving societies

Do water-saving policies improve water-use technical efficiency? Evidence from the water-receiving cities of China’s South–North Water Transfer Project

ABSTRACT China has implemented a series of water-saving policies in response to the growing threat of water shortages. However, it remains unclear whether these water-saving policies, which aim to reduce water-use intensity, will actually improve water-use technical efficiency. This study scrutinizes water-use technical efficiency within an extended human-environment framework by using the case of China's South–North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP). An improved estimation method for water-use technical efficiency based on stochastic frontier analysis is adopted to empirically investigate the variations in water-use intensity and technical efficiency in the SNWTP's water-receiving cities. This study argues that there is no definitive link between improvements in water-use technical efficiency and decreases in water-use intensity, and thus water-saving policies oriented toward reducing water-use intensity do not necessarily increase water-use technical efficiency. In addition, achieving the goals of water-saving policies by reducing water use intensity alone remains challenging and requires improving the water-use technical efficiency caused by endogenous technological progress. Finally, setting a unified target to reduce water-use intensity leads to inequitable sharing of water-saving tasks between regions, resulting in conflicts of interest among government bureaucracies.

ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC POLICY IMPLEMENTATION ON BUREAUCRACY TRANSFORMATION POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN GARUT DISTRICT

As part of the transformation of public services, public service providers can be an instrument to maintain and improve the quality of public services during the Covid-19 pandemic. The government bureaucracy has responded to the changes brought about by this pandemic with various forms of action. The public interest in submitting public service complaints has an increasing trend during the Covid-19 pandemic. The implementation of public services in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations must carry out legal protection and legal certainty for the general public. The research method used in this article is a qualitative descriptive method, with the type of library research using library data collection methods, reading, and taking notes and processing research materials. The results of the study show the importance of bureaucratic transformation with a dynamic bureaucratic structure and culture as well as the ability to keep up with social changes that occur on the basis of providing maximum public services, especially considering the economic potential of Garut Regency which can be a source of foreign exchange for the country, community especially in Garut Regency. The shift in the public service bureaucracy is expected to encourage economic growth in Garut Regency.

Advocacy on Combating Hunger: Political Will of the Kedunggebang Village Government to Implement Banyuwangi Tanggap Stunting Programs in 2022

Accelerating stunting reduction is a government policy priority supported by all local governments in Indonesia. Banyuwangi Regency has the Banyuwangi Tanggap Stunting (BTS) Program as innovative program to reduce stunting rates, which must be supported by all village governments in Banyuwangi Regency. The success of the policy must begin with the Political Will of the village government to support the implementation of policies in the villages. In this context, Kedunggebang Village, Tegaldlimo District, implements the BTS program through cross-sectoral synergy and massive counselling to the people at Kedunggebang Village. The purpose of this study is to describe the Political Will of the Kedunggebang village government to support the BTS project, and obstacles in its implementation. This research uses qualitative descriptive methods through in-depth interview techniques and is analyzed using Brinkerhoff theory (1999) as an analytical instrument. The novelty of this research is a multidisciplinary study that examines public health issues using the perspective of public policy and government bureaucracy. The results of this study show that the Kedunggebang Village Government has low Political Will, but is able to implement the BTS program. So there is a need for bureaucratic reform in the form of village regulation legislation, preparation of village development plans, and organizing a task force to accelerate stunting reduction.

MENITI ULANG MASALAH ETIKA DAN NETRALITAS ASN DI ERA REFORMASI BIROKRASI

Bureaucratic reform is a big job that requires large resources, earnest efforts and strong commitment from all levels of government management. Bureaucratic reform must be able to mobilize the full potential of the Indonesian nation, first of all we should clean up bureaucratic diseases, and if it is not immediately resolved it can cause the government not going well, because it reduces trust in the community. Therefore, the Government of Indonesia is currently carrying out bureaucratic reforms that must make corrections and retrace the ethics of the bureaucracy or public administration. Bureaucratic ethics related to the mentality and morality of the bureaucratic apparatus in carrying out government functions, because many cases of ASN in Indonesia involve problems related to bureaucratic ethics, the most common in Indonesia is corruption. Many cases of corruption prove that Indonesia's bureaucratic ethics is still weak and requires improvement in bureaucratic ethics. Apart from that, in government it is also known as administrative or bureaucratic neutrality. The neutrality of the bureaucracy is not a new thing, but with state administration as an organ of the bureaucracy in Indonesia it will definitely be neutral. According to Sondang P, the bureaucracy must be neutral, meaning that this principle is interpreted by saying that the government bureaucracy must continue to function properly, regardless of the influence of the prevailing political parties.

The Electronic Government Policy-Based Green Constitution Towards Good Governance

In fact, e-government policy in Indonesia has not yet finished discussing regulations and implementations in government institutions. E-government policies are still regulated at the institutional field specifically or still at the respective regional governments. The nature of the policy is still partial so that there is no structural regulation as a rigid policy implementer that regulates the implementation of e-government in Indonesia. However, the implementation of e-government that uses technology, information and communication equipment will have a negative impact on environmental sustainability, one of them is an increase e-waste from the government sector. This research uses normative legal analysis to find legal facts and formulate a green constitution-based electronic government policy model to realize efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of governance and public services towards good governance. This research proves the urgency of implementing regulations as an innovation model for e-government policies based on a green constitution to ensure the reduction of e-waste in Indonesia using green ICT. Therefore, it is important to develop guiding regulations which are Government Regulation for the implementation of e-government in both the central and regional government bureaucracies.

Review of “Emerging global cities: origin, structure and significance”

The authors challenge the “global city literature” school of urban studies thought advanced by such authors as Saskia Sassen, which empirically rank-orders world cities based on their concentration of business activity and confers higher power and importance to cities atop this hierarchy. The book advances a critique of the global city literature alongside scholars such as Neil Brenner and Jennifer Robinson, arguing that such hierarchical conceptions of world cities ignore third world or Global South cities, instead treating higher-ranked cities as ideal and merely reproducing North American and Eurocentric views of urban life. As opposed to the orthodoxy of global city literature, the authors suggest that “emerging global cities” such Dubai, Miami, and Singapore emerged from a position of insignificance to prominence, without “sponsorship” from the supposed global elite cities atop the world city hierarchy. The book contributes a novel set of characteristics explaining this ascendance, which can most directly benefit global urban studies focused on cities in the Global South: a legal system that investors are confident with, a pro-business yet non-corrupt government bureaucracy, local political leaders motivated to make their city globally competitive, including the use of city branding, and the inward migration of foreign labor to fuel growth in globalizing formal economic sectors. These factors contribute novel criteria missing from the global city literature to explain the flexibility for peripheral cities to ascend.

Legalitas Penetapan Kerugian Keuangan Negara Oleh Aparat Pengawas Internal Pemerintah (APIP) Sebagai Dasar Memeriksa Perkara Korupsi

To prevent and eradicate criminal acts of corruption in the bureaucracy of government institutions and prevent errors and irregularities in the implementation of duties by apparatus in the government bureaucracy, the existence of the government internal supervision apparatus (APIP) is considered very important to conduct internal supervision of government apparatus in carrying out government duties. However, the authority given by law to APIP is often not in line with APH (Law Enforcement Officers) often use the results of the State loss calculation report by APIP as a basis for prosecuting someone suspected of committing a Criminal Act of Corruption. This type of research is normative juridical. The type of research is descriptive-analytical. The source of legal materials uses primary legal materials and secondary legal materials. Techniques for collecting legal materials through literature study and qualitative analysis of legal materials. The results showed that the only institution that has the authority to calculate and determine State Financial Losses is the Audit Board by attribution given by the Constitution Therefore, every charge committed by APH (Law Enforcement Officer) must be null and void or can be canceled because it is not in line with existing regulations.

Problematika Pelaksanaan PermenPANRB Nomor 17 Tahun 2021 Tentang Penyetaraan Jabatan Administrasi Ke Dalam Jabatan Fungsional

The efficiency of government bureaucracy has long been a topic of debate, with the aspiration of establishing a transparent and authoritative government yet to be realized. State Civil Servants (ASN) are frequently found to be unproductive, neglecting their duties and responsibilities, and lacking in innovation and responsiveness, all of which have hindered progress and advancement. As a response to this issue, the government introduced regulation of the Minister for the Utilization of State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform Number 28 of 2019, aimed at simplifying and streamlining the bureaucracy by standardizing administrative positions into functional positions. This regulation was further refined by Regulation of the Minister for the Utilization of State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform Number 17 of 2021. However, the implementation of these regulations has been challenging, with numerous issues arising. In order to bring about the desired changes, ongoing studies, analyses, socialization, and the strengthening of apparatus that have undergone standardization are essential. To investigate the problems associated with the implementation of these regulations, this study employs a library research method, utilizing regulations as the primary reference. The findings suggest that the implementation of Regulation of the Minister for the Utilization of State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform Number 17 of 2021 has presented significant challenges for both the organization and the functional and structural officials involved.

The Emergence of Public Sector Innovation Associated with Civil Servants' Perception in 3T Regions: Results of a Multiple Regression Analysis

Innovations from civil servants determine government bureaucracy. However, their effectiveness toward the emergence of public sector innovations has not been widely explored, particularly from civil servants' perception of local government institutions in a 3T region. This study examines the civil servants' perception of the emergence of public sector innovations and identifies the factors that influence them. Thirty-nine civil servants of the innovation laboratory WhatsApp group from North Lombok Regency in the 3T regions participated in this study. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression. The result of the study discovered that most civil servants have a positive insight into the emergence of public sector innovations. They perceived that leader are essential in encouraging innovations in the public sector. Their organisational climate is open to new things. However, attention regarding employee rewards after completing work challenges is still lacking. Meanwhile, their organisation has sufficient capacity to encourage job completion. Multiple regression analysis revealed that independent variables (transformational leadership, organisational climate, and organisational capacity) have a 54.9% contribution and simultaneously affect the emergence of public sector innovations. The partial regression coefficient test revealed that organizational climate contributed the most, with a 33.4% contribution to the emergence of public sector innovations. The results of this study provide implications for both academic and government settings, especially in the organisational climate, which turned out to have been significantly affected by the emergence of public sector innovations

Praktik Sosial-Politik Birokrasi Pemerintahan dalam Pemilukada di Indonesia: Perspektif Teori Strukturasi

The expectation of reform for the bureaucracy remains neutral in elections and still encounters structural conflicts inherent in the bureaucracy as an agency. In the context of local politics, the government bureaucracy plays a crucial role in influencing the results of the regional elections. This article employs Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration to examine the strategic behaviour of the Indonesian government bureaucracy in regional elections. The data collection method used in this study was literature research, which aimed to gather data and information using various materials available in the library. The results of this study found that the bureaucracy involved in regional elections is at the level of discursive and practical consciousness, which originates from the bureaucracy's ability to reflect on itself and monitor similar practices in broader space and time. Integrating space and time in social practices is fundamental in observing agents' actions in interacting with the structure. The room and time of the regional elections are closely related to the space and time of governance.

A SHIFT IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BUREAUCRACY IN THE LEGAL PERSPECTIVE OF VILLAGE GOVERNMENTS IN INDONESIA

Social development in communities has continued to rapidly evolve, necessitating that governments be prepared to meet the needs of their villages. This requires restructuring village government bureaucracies to conform to existing laws and regulations and provide for the welfare of their communities. Restructuring village bureaucracies is a shared obligation between village officials and the community. This research examines the nature of this shift in bureaucracy and the urgency of realizing principles of village governance regarding financial management. The method used is empirical normative juridical, which relies on documents, legislation, and field facts. The study finds that bureaucracy should always be based on the law and legal certainty, particularly in policy-making and decision-making, to prevent maladministration. Good governance requires practical knowledge, traditional manners, and professionalism. Public service problems present a challenge for villages to improve their quality and offer fast, easy, and good services.

Policy Agenda Setting in Public Health Dentistry: Implementing North America's First Universal School-Based Dental Program in Saskatchewan.

The Saskatchewan Dental Plan in Canada was the first universal dental care plan for children in North America. Based on a similar New Zealand program, it would take over two decades from the time that the provincial government first considered the New Zealand policy until a final decision was made to implement the program. This article reviews the reasons for the long gestation of the policy, including the hostility of organized dentistry in Saskatchewan and Canada and the caution of the government's bureaucracy. It would take until a social democratic government was elected in 1971 before the political stream joined with the pre-existing problem and policy streams to open the policy window. Established in 1974, the program was terminated in 1987 due to opposition of organized dentistry combined with the pro-market ideology of a newly elected government.

Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel. Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America.

The 2022 victory of the US women’s national soccer (also known as football or association football) team players to achieve equal pay as male players is the culmination of many years of organizing to construct a thriving women’s soccer culture. Similar achievements have not been replicated in Latin America. In Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America, Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel explain why Latin American women have not enjoyed the success of their North American counterparts in consolidating national soccer cultures despite several attempts to do so. Futbolera fills a major gap in the historiography of Latin American sport by focusing on the trials and tribulations of women’s soccer in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico from the late nineteenth century to the present day. This process is no easy task, as historians of sport often rely on periodicals, which tend to celebrate the achievements of male athletes much more than female ones. Despite this challenge, Elsey and Nadel thoroughly document Latin American women’s soccer’s many starts, which often then dissipate from the public record. When the flame rekindles, there are often expressions of shock and amazement at this new phenomenon, despite evidence to the contrary. Aside from soccer, the authors also analyze discourses and developments in women’s physical education, which played a key role in steering women away from playing rough sports like soccer and boxing in favor of sports like volleyball and basketball. Elsey and Nadel argue that a variety of actors, such as government bureaucrats, feminists, and entrepreneurs, have promoted and in some cases hindered the development of women’s soccer in the region. This uneven support continues in the present day.

The Transformation of Chinese Cultural Images of the Plague through Chinese Characters, Legends and Folkways1

The human experience of survival from a plague is about distinguishing the sick from the healthy as quickly as possible, establishing a barrier to stop the infection, and protecting healthy people. Nevertheless, the various quarantine rules and the acceptance and compliance of the population are a kind of battle between policy implementers and the public. This paper tries to understand how Chinese cultural attitudes (Henderson, 1984) unconsciously influence the Chinese people to be most cooperative with the strict containment and quarantine measures to confront the COVID-19 pandemic. This article begins with the Chinese characters, exemplified by the four characters of disease and plague, to discuss how the pictograph nature and spatial structural way profoundly shaped the cultural mind. Then, through plague-related Chinese legends, stories and folklore, the paper sets out the Chinese cultural attitudes which are also manifested in the analogical associations between disease, plague and seasons, the balance of the five elements of the universe and ghosts, gods and the government bureaucrats in the Kingdom of the Heaven. All of these approaches are well in line with Jung's method of associative amplification as a way to locate the archetypal wisdom that assures survival.

How to combine rules and commitment in fostering research integrity?

ABSTRACT Research integrity (RI) is crucial for trustworthy research. Rules are important in setting RI standards and improving research practice, but they can lead to increased bureaucracy; without commensurate commitment amongst researchers toward RI, they are unlikely to improve research practices. In this paper, we explore how to combine rules and commitment in fostering RI. Research institutions can govern RI using markets (using incentives), bureaucracies (using rules), and network processes (through commitment and agreements). Based on Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action, we argue that network processes, as part of the lifeworld, can legitimize systems – that is, market or bureaucratic governance modes. This can regulate and support RI practices in an efficient way. Systems can also become dominant and repress consensus processes. Fostering RI requires a balance between network, market and bureaucratic governance modes. We analyze the institutional response to a serious RI case to illustrate how network processes can be combined with bureaucratic rules. Specifically, we analyze how the Science Committee established at Tilburg University in 2012 has navigated different governance modes, resulting in a normatively grounded and efficient approach to fostering RI. Based on this case, we formulate recommendations to research institutions on how to combine rules and commitment.

Media Capture and Journalism as Emotional Labor: How Do Media Professionals Manage Bureaucratic Violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq?

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the (in)direct tools of governmental bureaucracy used to control journalistic work in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). It calls for understanding media capture not only through structural-level consequences, but also through the methods used to create an environment of instability and unsafety. To make sense of these processes, and how they are experienced and negotiated by journalists, this paper combines scholarship on the emotional labor of journalism with scholarship on processes of media capture in deeply restrictive environments. The mixed-methods approach aims first to uncover structural conditions of media capture in the KRI through a document analysis of 21 public reports published by the Kurdistan Journalists’ Syndicate (KJS) and the Metro Center for Journalists’ Rights and Advocacy (MC) between 2014 and 2020. Second, it aims to reveal how journalists and editors-in-chief from diverse media organizations manage and negotiate these chronic conditions of precarity and instability, through 15 semi-structured in-depth interviews. The results show multiple strategies that have been developed by journalists and editors to mitigate or acclimate direct and indirect bureaucratic violence (e.g., editorial support, socialization skills and networks, understanding of unspoken and unwritten rules, etc.)

Examining the Indonesia Bureaucracy Response and Problem in Pandemic Times: A Preliminary Diagnostic Study

This investigation was prompted by the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, which created very rapid changes in the bureaucratic environment. This initial study is intended to explain how the Indonesian bureaucracy responds to changes due to the pandemic. A literature study is used to aggregate some of the findings of the latest research in Indonesia and official and accountable reports on bureaucratic governance. General results show that the bureaucracy in Indonesia is still stuttering in carrying out its functions. When the public requires quick and fair service, bureaucratic formalism, as an effect of Weberian bureaucracy, finds its contradiction. Still, the response required by the public does not accompany it. Further studies must be initiated to formulate an agile and public-centered bureaucratic model in the post-pandemic era.
 Keywords: bureaucracy, COVID-19, pandemic

Influence of Lean and Agile Management, Digital Transformation, and Transformational Leadership Toward Performance of Sumedang Government Apparatus

This investigation was prompted by the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, which created rapid changes in the bureaucratic environment. This initial study is intended to explain how the Indonesian bureaucracy responds to changes due to the pandemic. A literature study is used to aggregate some of the findings of the latest research in Indonesia and official and accountable reports on bureaucratic governance. General results showed that the bureaucracy in Indonesia is still very stuttering in carrying out its functions. Bureaucratic formalism, as an effect of the Weberian bureaucracy, finds its contradiction when the public needs fast and fair service. Still, the response required by the public does not accompany it. Further studies must be initiated to formulate an agile and public-centered bureaucratic model in the post-pandemic era.
 Keywords: bureaucracy, COVID-19, pandemic