The implementation of e-government in Indonesia is not only limited to efforts to improve the efficiency of bureaucracy, but also achieve more comprehensive goals of increased efficiency of entire communities with the ultimate objective to boost productivity and competitiveness in facing global challenges. At the local government level, efforts to enhance overall efficiency is implementing smart city program. This article proposes a smart city program implemented in several cities in Indonesia. The main questions are: Is the smart city program able to bring about change to the lives of Indonesian citizens? What are the problems encountered by municipalities in implementing the smart city program? The research found that smart city development in a number of municipalities was aimed at two main sectors, which were governance and public services. The governance sector covered planning, regional finance management, and personnel system.
This study was conducted by inding that there were inconsistencies and uncorrelated data from the government score-based report about Village Fund, and the public perception of the village fund. This research observes relevance of numbers using the Impact Assessment concepts. This research can act as a useful insight for the governments, researchers and societies to evaluate the commitment of the government to build Indonesia from village. By using descriptive quantitative research method, this paper critically summarises the government report of the Village Fund by contrasted the priorities target of the fund. From the assessment, it was found that the development of the village facilities, infrastructure, and community empowerment program currently increased, but the village fund still has a problem with its equalisation and utilisation of the fund. In conclusion, the achievement numbers of the village fund do not have any correlation with the poverty reduction, because there are lack of equalisation and perception as a mean of utilisation in some sectors. The perception index does not correlate with the satisfaction index in terms of infrastructure development, and the intervention of the village fund does not have a connection with the understanding of people on the use of the fund.
Changes in Indonesian political system have also changed the relations of elected and bureaucratic officials in the recruitment of career officials. The dynamic relations of elected and bureaucratic officials in the recruitment of career officials in New Order Era, and the Reform Era prior to and post The Law of Civil State Apparatus (UU ASN) became interesting to investigate because it can illustrate the dynamics of politics-administration in Indonesia. This study will answer the question: What is the politics-administration in the dynamic relations of elected and bureaucratic officials in the recruitment of career officials at the local level in Indonesia? Research with qualitative research method to answer research question has been done in Tegal City. This study shows that bureaucrats who were in the same side with Mayor during the New Order era emphasizes its recruitment of the officials on the proximity and political benefits to maintain and enlarge the power. The condition of the elected-bureaucratic official relations in the New Order era illustrates political dominance. In the time of Reform Era prior to UU ASN, the relation between elected and bureaucratic officials tended to show what Svara submitted as a complementary condition. In the time of the Reform Era post the UU ASN, when the Mayor has a high degree of political control, and at the same time because of the UU ASN, the degree of bureaucratic independence was also high, occured a conflict between Mayor and bureaucrats. The results of this study modify Svara's (2001) model of politics-administration complementarity.
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