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An Analysis of Indonesian Public Service Reform Through National Public Service Complaint Management Policy

Received: 27 November 2021    Accepted: 24 January 2022    Published: 5 February 2022
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The concept of Good Governance through involving the active participation of the community in the process of making and implementing policies in the reform era and public openness is a demand for government administration to realize bureaucratic reform. Public services quality is one indicator to determine the realization of this concept. This essay aimed to analyze decision-making-theories in Indonesia public service reform concerning instrumental, cultural, and neo-institutional theories through Public Service Complaint Management Policy implemented by the Indonesian Ministry of Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform since 2018. This essay also intends to recognize the challenges of this policy and the pattern of Indonesian bureaucratic reform policies in improving the quality of public service. After analyzing instrumental, cultural, myth, and isomorphism approaches in Indonesian public service complaint management policy, hybrid organization form showed by the public organization when adapting old public administration, NPM, and post NPM for realizing accountable public service governance. A combination of vertical and horizontal specialization showed during the formulation and implementation of this policy. While some public organizations often use mythical and isomorphism and rely on path-dependency towards Javanese culture and strong hierarchy in bureaucracy. Those decision-maker theories in the organization are various aspects of the Indonesian Public Service Complaint Management Policy.

Published in Journal of Public Policy and Administration (Volume 6, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.jppa.20220601.12
Page(s) 5-11
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Keywords

Instrumental, Cultural, Myth, Isomorphism, Indonesia, Public Service Complaint Management Policy, LAPOR-SP4N

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  • Public Administration in International Development, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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