Ethics of local government heads: A study of leadership in Surabaya, Bandung, and Purwakarta, Indonesia

The most significant aspect of a leader’s behavior is ethics because it is a guideline for interacting, acting, and involving in government in an ethical manner without abusing power. This article aims to find out how the ethics of regional heads are applied in the administration of regional government. The research method used was qualitative with a literature study approach. Data collection was done by literature study by collecting various materials from books, journals, research results, and mass media (news). The results of research conducted on three districts/cities in Indonesia involving three leaders of the Mayor of Surabaya, the Mayor of Bandung, and the Regent of Purwakarta in 2015 show some real examples of regional heads who apply ethical values in their leadership, which can be seen from their performance and competence as well as ideas (innovation) and relationships with the community. It has gone well by applying ethical principles in its performance such as accountability, transparency, legal assurance, and justice. Competence in leadership includes the application of ethical values including emotional intelligence, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. This study concludes that government ethics greatly influence the implementation and desired results, as well as on leadership, which will affect the performance carried out.

Pelanggaran Etika Birokrasi dalam Pemerintahan di Indonesia

In government ethics, there is a prevailing assumption that through the appreciation of good ethics, an apparatus will be able to build a commitment to make himself an example of goodness and maintain government morality. Good government officials and have high morals, will always guard themselves in order to avoid disgraceful acts, because they are called to maintain the mandate given, through imaging the behavior of daily life. Within the scope of the government profession, for example, there are certain values ​​that must be upheld in order to maintain the image of a government capable of carrying out its duties and functions. Trends or symptoms that arise today, many bureaucratic apparatus in carrying out their duties often violate the rules of the game that have been set. Cases related to ethical violations in the government bureaucracy such as corruption and gratification (bribery) involve many professions in violating ethics such as state administration officials, regional heads, legislators, prosecutors, judges, police, tax officials, and so on. Bureaucratic Ethics is part of the rules of the game in the Bureaucracy or Civil Service organization which structurally has regulated the rules of the game, which we know as. Code of Ethics for Civil Servants, which has been regulated by the Civil Service Act. To be more effective in delivering the code of ethics, the code of ethics can be read together -the same on certain occasions which is sometimes followed by a discourse from a ceremonial leader called a ceremonial inspector, the intention is to create favorable moral conditions in experienced organizations and to cultivate the necessary mental attitude, as well as to create good morals. The Code of Ethics is usually read in flag ceremonies, monthly ceremonies or ceremonies anniversary of the organization concerned, and national ceremonies. In order to create a more ethical Bureaucratic Apparatus according to the above expectations, it is necessary to make efforts and training in that direction as well as to enforce strict and clear sanctions for those who violate the code of ethics regardless of their rank and position. Anyone who violates the code of ethics, whether it's superiors or subordinates, must be dealt with firmly to create a deterrent effect. Therefore, in relation to the Code of Ethics for Civil Servants, it must really animate, appreciate and implement the employment rules that have been determined or set as the rules of the game for the Bureaucratic apparatus. Keywords: bureaucratic ethics, government

Viewing Omnibus Law's Policy in a Governance Ethics Perspective through Social Media Twitter

Social media can quickly help people interact with the Government and use technology to turn communication into interactive dialogue. This study looks at Omnibus Law policies from government ethics through social media Twitter hashtag (#) Omnibus law. The method used in this research is qualitative, then data is collected from the Twitter hashtag using Nvivo12 Plus to analyze the data. This study's results reveal that the Hashtag (#) Omnibus Law's effectiveness is proven to be efficient in viewing data analysis through information dissemination on Nvivo12 Plus on Twitter to see policies and responses from the public who use the Hashtag (#) Omnibus Law.

Government Ethics in the Age of Trump

Americans’ trust in government officials has never been lower. Despite the intense public focus on ethics in government in recent years, legal scholarship on the subject has been sparse. This Article fills the gap by examining the ethics regime of the federal executive branch in depth, with a discussion of both the applicable ethics standards and the agencies and offices that are charged with ensuring that government officials comply with those standards. The Article describes how the current system heavily emphasizes prevention, education, and highly detailed disclosures while it rarely enforces the law against wrongdoers. A federal official in the United States is literally more likely to be struck by lightning than to be charged with violating a government ethics law. The Article then considers the federal government’s ethics regime through the lens of criminal deterrence theory and concludes that the current system is an example of what not to do if the goal is to discourage violations. To address this deficiency, the Article proposes a number of reforms to the current system to improve the deterrent effect of federal ethics standards, including a radical reimagining of the authority of government ethics officials.

Sequential Topic Modelling: A Case Study on Indonesian LGBT Conversation on Twitter

As a country with the largest Muslim population in the world, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) issue in Indonesia has always been a hot topic to investigate. Social media such as Twitter is normally the main media where people normally discuss this LGBT topic. In this paper, we collect 18,552 tweets dated from 2015 up to 2018 to analyze the dynamics of the LGBT conversation among Indonesian peoples. In this research, we will explore the main topic of the LGBT conversation using Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). LDA is one of the most popular methods of soft clustering. This technique is effective to identify latent topic information (hidden) in a collection of big data using a bag of words approaches that treat every document as a vector of total words and is represented as a probability distribution on several topics. The result shows that there are seven main categories that people normally talked about regarding LGBT i.e. politics, religion, government, ethics, nationality, culture, and technology. Looking at the topic probability distributions on each semester we found that it is generally homogenous. An exception occurs during the government election period where politic tends to have a significantly higher probability. In other words, we have found that there is a tendency that LGBT issues are used in Indonesian politics.Keywords: LGBT; politics; topic modeling; twitter. AbstrakSebagai negara dengan penduduk muslim terbesar di dunia, isu mengenai Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, dan Transgender (LGBT) di Indonesia adalah isu sensitif yang senantiasa menarik untuk diteliti. Media sosial seperti twitter adalah salah satu media yang biasa digunakan masyarakat untuk mendiskusikan tentang topik LGBT ini. Penelitian ini menggunakan 18.552 tweet tahun 2015 – 2018 dikumpulkan untuk melihat perbedaan pola perbincangan dari waktu ke waktu. Dalam penelitian ini, eksplorasi topik utama perbincangan LGBT dianalisis menggunakan metode Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). LDA adalah metode yang paling populer dalam soft clustering. Teknik ini efektif untuk mengidentifikasi informasi topik laten (tersembunyi) dalam koleksi dokumen besar menggunakan pendekatan bag of words yang memperlakukan setiap dokumen sebagai vektor jumlah kata dan direpresentasikan sebagai distribusi probabilitas atas beberapa topik, sementara setiap topik direpresentasikan sebagai distribusi probabilitas atas sejumlah kata. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa terdapat tujuh topik dominan yang sering muncul pada perbincangan tentang LGBT, yaitu politik, agama, pemerintahan, keasusilaan, kewarganegaraan, budaya dan teknologi. Pada kategori ini kemudian distribusi probabilitas topik dihitung dan dianalisa pada setiap semesternya. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa ada kecenderungan distribusi topik seragam, kecuali pada masa-masa pergantian pemerintahan dimana kategori politik cenderung meningkat secara signifikan. Dengan kata lain, ada kecenderungan bahwa isu LGBT dikaitkan dengan kehidupan perpolitikan di Indonesia.Kata kunci: LGBT, politik, topic modelling, twitter.

US House Dems will push new policy agenda

Significance This follows the 116th Congress’s swearing-in on January 3, heralding a Democratic House majority and Nancy Pelosi's second term as House speaker. It also follows the January 4 introduction of the Democratic-led House’s first bill, the For the People Act (‘HR 1’), a ‘wish-list’ of Democratic priorities including campaign finance reform, increasing and protecting voting rights, and strengthening government ethics requirements. Impacts Corporates face greater scrutiny of their hiring decisions and campaign finance contributions by the House. A Trump impeachment is currently unlikely, but the House will investigate his administration reasonably extensively. House Democrats will increase scrutiny of corporates’ green credentials. Trump faces greater scrutiny of his use of war powers; absent partisanship, Congress could introduce greater constraints.

EFEKTIVITAS PROGRAM PEMBERDAYAAN

EFEKTIVITAS PROGRAM PEMBERDAYAAN Abstrak Tujuan penelitian ini menganalisis pengaruh variable kepemimpinan, tata pemerintahan dan etika pemerintahan terhadap efektivitas pemberdayaan dan dampaknya pada kesejahteraan keluarga miskin di kota Bekasi. Metode penelitian dilakukan berdasarkan survei terhadap responden keluarga miskin anggota Posdaya beserta para stakeholdernya dengan menggunakan kuesioner terstruktur. Data yang terkumpul kemudian diolah dan dianalisis dengan teknik Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ketiga variable yang diteliti memiliki pengaruh signifikan pada efektivitas pemberdayaan yang selanjutnya berdampak pada kesejahteraan keluarga miskin. Kata kunci: efektifitas, tata pemerintahan yang baik, paradigma baru, SEM The Effectiveness of Empowerment Program Abstract The research objectiveis to test the influence of the variables on leadership, good governance and government ethics on empowerment‘s effectiveness and its effect on the welfare of the poor in Bekasi. The result has been processed and analyzed based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique. It shows that all of the three exogeneus variables are significantly influencing the process and the empowerment‘seffectiveness, in turn, will lead to the prosperity of the poor families at grass root level. Keywords: effectiveness, good governance, new paradigm, SEM