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From Phenomena To Implementation: Lessons And Challenges Of Administrative Reforms In Indonesia

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  • Oscar Radyan Danar
  • Bevaola Kusumasari
  • M.R. Khairul Muluk

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Administrative reform has been recognized as one of the most prominent activities of governments intending to keep up with the recent trends of dynamic societies around the world. In recent years, the discussion in the reform literature has attracted significant attention from public administration scholars. It includes various methods and discusses a series of experiences of the reform movement around the world within multiple political landscapes, economic settings, and international turbulences. This paper presents the experience of administrative reform in Indonesia as one of the developing countries in Southeast Asia with a complex history of a colonial legacy. This study analyzes the prominent works of literature discussing the reform experience in Indonesia combined with theoretical perspectives of administrative reform. It highlights three major findings; first, the phenomenon of administrative reform in Indonesia was moving against the reform trend of most other developing countries; second, institutional arrangements play a critical role in repairing the reform trajectory; and third, the current progress of administrative reform in Indonesia still indicates the minimum achievement in some institutions. The discussion of this study, bordered by the settled time frame of reform implementation in Indonesia, is comprised of past and current experiences as well as the future projection of Indonesia administrative reform.

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  • Oscar Radyan Danar & Bevaola Kusumasari & M.R. Khairul Muluk, 2020. "From Phenomena To Implementation: Lessons And Challenges Of Administrative Reforms In Indonesia," Public administration issues, Higher School of Economics, issue 6, pages 33-50.
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