Indonesian Government Bureaucracy Efforts to Prevent Covid-19 at the Beginning of the Pandemic Period

Since the World Health Organization declared the Corona Covid-19 virus as an epidemic, in the following, the Indonesian Government also stated that the Corona virus problem has become a non-natural national disaster. The President of the Republic of Indonesia and the Regional government together with their staff are helping one another in preventing the spread of Covid-19 in Indonesia. Many government bureaucratic efforts have been made by issuing policies as the initial steps to prevent the spread of Covid-19. As the implementer of the bureaucracy, the Government always strives to provide effective public services in efforts to prevent the spread of the Corona Covid-19 virus in society. From the central level to the heads of the provinces, Regencies and even the municipal governments. This study applies the content analysis method, in which the content analysis is limited to newspaper media which convey information related to some policies information presented by each head of government, both in several regions and countries. The purpose of this research is to provide education to the public in dealing with global disasters and efforts to prevent them. The results show that the bureaucratic efforts of the central government and local governments through various policies have carried out many communication strategies for their respective regional communities through coercion, informative, expulsion, targeting, persuasion and excess techniques in message packages in the form of instructions, to the public to prevent Covid-19 in their area. However, the techniques of coercion up to the approval stage are enforced to prevent the effect of violations on offenders. The central government in this case has not maximized its roles in implementing a comprehensive communication strategy for all local governments. This is due to the absence of the National Command from the central government which seems to be slow in preventing the transmission of Covid-19, which has become a global disaster, including in Indonesia.

Oman will struggle to balance social and fiscal needs

Significance The additional income is being partly used to direct support to poorer segments of society. However, this has not ended the mounting popular pressure for accelerated change. The main demands, expressed on social media platforms, include expedited employment and fiscal relief programmes, curbs on government bureaucracy and limits to the number of state-owned enterprises competing with the private sector. Impacts The high-employment tourism and construction sectors could be slow to recover post-pandemic and manufacturing may take a hit. Saudi and Emirati investment offers benefits but conditions could strain Oman’s policy of regional neutrality. Difficulties in accessing credit for non-state employees will keep people focused on seeking government jobs.

KAJIAN HUKUM TERHADAP PERANGKAT DESA YANG IKUT SERTA DALAM KAMPANYE PEMILU DI KABUPATEN INDRAGIRI HILIR

The general election or regional head election (hereinafter referred to as the Regional Head Election) in a country is an effort to realize good governance and the realization of a democratic state. However, it raises legal problems in the field, such as the occurrence of the attitudes of state officials or state apparatus in this case, one of which is village officials who participate in efforts to win one of the candidates for election and post-conflict local election. This needs to be investigated through legal studies using normative legal research methods, with legal research sources namely primary legal materials and secondary legal materials and the analysis used in this study using qualitative analysis. The Village Head is one part of the Government Bureaucracy which has been clearly regulated in the Election Law. All government bureaucracies may not be involved or support one candidate, including one of them is the Village Head, but in practice there are still many Village Heads who support certain candidates. In article 66 clause 2 part C about The General Election Commission Regulation Number 7 of 2015 was emphasized in the campaign, candidate pairs and/or campaign teams are prohibited from involving “village head or other designations/lurah and village apparatus or other designations/kelurahan.” The prohibition to include village heads and village apparatus is contained in Article 280 paragraph (2) of the Election Law. It is clear that if the campaign involves the village apparatus, it is included in the election violation and is included in an election crime and can be given a criminal sanction if it is proven to have committed an election crime. Pemilihan umum ataupun juga pemilihan kepala daerah (yang selanjutnya disebut dengan Pemilukada) dalam suatu negara merupakan upaya untuk mewujudkan pemerintahan yang baik serta terwujudnya negara demokrasi. Namun menimbulkan persoalan-persoalah hukum di lapangan seperti terjadinya sikap-sikap aparat negara atau perangkat-perangkat negara dalam hal ini salah satunya adalah perangkat desa yang ikut serta dalam upaya memenangkan salah satu calon peserta pemilu maupun pemilukada. Hal ini perlu diteliti melalui kajian hukum dengan metode penelitian hukum normatif, dengan sumber penelitian hukum yakni bahan hukum primer dan bahan hukum sekunder serta analisa yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini dengan menggunakan analisis kualitatif. Kepala Desa merupakan salah satu bagian dari Birokrasi Pemerintah yang telah diatur secara jelas di dalam Undang-Undang Pemilu. Semua birokrasi pemerintahan tidak boleh terlibat ataupun mendukung salah satu calon termasuk salah satunya adalah Kepala Desa namun dalam pelaksanaannya masih banyak seorang Kepala Desa menjadi pendukung bagi calon tertentu. Pada pasal 66 ayat 2 bagian C Peraturan Komisi Pemilihan Umum Nomor 7 tahun 2015 ditegaskan dalam kampanye, pasangan calon dan/atau tim kampanye dilarang melibatkan “kepala desa atau sebutan lain/lurah dan perangkat desa atau sebutan lain/kelurahan ”Larangan mengikut sertakan kepala desa dan perangkat desa terdapat dalam Pasal 280 ayat (2) Undang-Undang Pemilu. Jelas bahwa apabila dalam kampanye melibatkan dan perangkat desa termasuk dalam pelanggaran pemilu dan masuk dalam tindak pidana pemilu dan dapat diberi sanksi berupa pidana apabila terbukti melakukan tindak pidana pemilu.

Call to service: The Register of Australian Accountants for National Service 1940–1944

PurposeThe paper explores the creation in Australia of the Register of Accountants for National Service. Established at the outset of the Second World War, the Register operated for four years from June 1940 providing voluntary, non-remunerated, part-time and after-hours services to a highly stressed and seriously stretched federal government bureaucracy by members of the main Australian professional accounting bodies. Departments of the Navy, Army, Air Force, Supply and Development and Munitions were the largest consumers of the services offered.Design/methodology/approachThe study of the Register relies mainly on an extensive archive of war-time documentation from the Federal Government and various accounting professional institutes which has survived, predominantly in the National Archives of Australia. The resource is particularly rich in material covering the complex negotiation processes that brought the Register into operation together with documentation recording and reporting the work of the Register. The themes of professionalization, institutional legitimacy, volunteerism and patriotism are all invoked to explain the presence of the Register in the machinery of government that was assembled to deliver the ultimately successful war effort. Created by the principal professional accounting institutes, the Register attests to the commitment of their members to the war effort and, thereby, the importance of the profession to Australian society.FindingsThe perilous situation of Australia at a time of war provided a compelling incentive for the accounting profession to organise itself in an efficient and highly effective manner to assist with the war effort. The disparate and somewhat fractured accounting profession at the time was able to work together in a structured, cohesive and disciplined manner to provide voluntary services when called upon. To deliver the voluntary services promised, a purpose-built set of institutional arrangements was put in place. An extensive inventory of the potential services that could be provided by members of the main professional accounting bodies was conducted to facilitate the smooth matching of government needs with services available.Research limitations/implicationsDiscussion focusses only on Australia where the Register was unique. No other examples have been discovered where a profession has self-mobilised to serve a nation in a time of war. A further limitation is that the activities reported are restricted to self-reporting by the Register and a small loose collection of documents prepared by the Department of the Navy.Originality/valueThe uniqueness of the Register is the core of the originality and value of this study. How and why it came into being and the method by which it completed the “task” assigned to it stand as testament to a profession strategically placed to contribute in a substantive manner to the war effort at minimal cost to the nation.

Analisis Promosi Jabatan Berbasis Kesetaraan Gender Pada Birokrasi Pemerintahan

<p class="05Abstrak"><span>Gender is a social construction or form so that it can be formed or changed according to place, time or age, ethnicity, race, culture, social status, religious understanding, country, ideology, politics, law and economy. The purpose of this study was to analyze the promotion of positions with the perspective of gender equality both men and women in the government bureaucracy. The method used in this study is a library research method using a descriptive analysis approach. The result of this study is that the role or participation of women in the government bureaucratic structure has exceeded that of men and has experienced gender justice or equality, but there is still a small gap between female civil servants who are difficult for echelon pratama positions.</span></p>

Bureaucracy culture change of administrative services on COVID-19 pandemic era

This study aims to analyze changes in the government bureaucracy in providing administrative services in the COVID-19 era. To analyze the problem, we used a qualitative descriptive method. Observation, documentation, and interviews are the main methods of data collection. The results showed that at the beginning of service during the COVID-19 period, employees were still very slow in responding to community services, but over time the Camat of the Teluk Ambon District Office always provided work motivation and improved services. Aspects of Responsibility were found at the time of the study that the Teluk Ambon District office employees had a high responsibility in completing and providing services to the community. Disciplinary aspects, from the study results, public awareness in maintaining the discipline of health protocols are still very minimal; This is indicated by employees always giving warnings to keep their distance when providing services. In this case, leadership is a determining factor in running the wheels of government organization well and quickly. The Camat as the leader of Ambon Bay always provides advice and work motivation to State Civil Apparatus Employees or non-permanent employees to provide services to the community even in the COVID-19 condition.

Benevolent Policies: Bureaucratic Politics and the International Dimensions of Social Policy Expansion

Research on the welfare state has devoted considerable attention to social policy expansion. However, little is known about why governments expand social policies serving groups with limited power on issues with low visibility. I call these “benevolent policies.” This class of social policies improves population well-being but produces minimal political gains for the governments enacting them. Why do governments expand benevolent policies if political incentives for reform are weak? I investigate this question by focusing on government responses to malnutrition. Drawing on nine months of fieldwork, including 71 interviews, I argue that the origins of policy expansion can be found in the government bureaucracy. Bureaucrats with technical expertise—technocrats—can play a defining role, deploying international pressure to court executive support and orchestrate policy change. Their actions help explain the Indonesian government’s unexpected expansion of nutrition policies, which serve low-income women and children and address micronutrient malnutrition.

CIVIL SOCIETY DI INDONESIA: SUATU KONSEKUENSI LOGIS TERWUJUDNYA GOOD GOVERNANCE

Civil society is one of the three important sectors of society, along with government and business. Civil society is one of the important elements of the democratization process in Indonesia. In accordance with the problems formulated above, the purposes of this discussion are to find out the description of civil society in Indonesia, and to find out efforts to strengthen civil society as a logical consequence of the realization of Good Governance in Indonesia. The development of civil society involves all aspects and dimensions of life. Therefore, efforts and commitment are needed to strengthen the community. Cooperation is needed because no party, organization, institution or anything even the government can carry it out alone. The relationship between civil society and good governance is symmetrical between the two. This is because the two concepts were born from the concept of democracy that upholds the values of justice, freedom, individual and group rights. Furthermore, democracy requires the state in carrying out its activities to be open to the public. Strengthening civil society in the flow of democracy must be realized as an absolute necessity for the implementation of a 'strong' and 'clean' government. The weakness of civil society in Indonesia is marked by widespread rejections of state/government policies by the people and these rejections have not received a meaningful response from the state/government. In the process of determining policies, the government bureaucracy still feels that citizens are used as objects of policy. This kind of narrow view will make the government anti-suggestions from citizens in determining policies.