Exploring Open Government Partnership As a Strategy For Promoting Transparency in Private University

Abstract

In Indonesia, the high cost of tuition at the Private University is an impunity for some students. Private University does not obtain the flow of funds from government, and is required to self-management from existing funds by the Foundation. However, reluctantly students to study at Private University and lack of confidence because the data is not transparent. The education system in Private University is still not implementing openness of data.Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a global partnership to make government more open, transparent, effective and accountable. Public disclosure can increase confidence in the government. Our case study in this research is a district that is a pioneer in the application of OGP in Indonesia, namely Bojonegoro.In this research, we examinedto adopt OGP for promoting transparency in Private University with a case study in the University of Nahdlatul Ulama Sunan Giri (Unugiri), Bojonegoro.This study is a discussion research as well as an initiation to develop the research in advanced in the assessment phase of the model and the alignment system between government and education. The results of this research showed four media of OGP in Bojonegoro that can be applied at the level of university, that is public dialogue, publication of the budget, software of public aspirations, and radio broadcast with availability of media and motivation of the respective roles as crucial factor of the success of the disclosure.

Expanding the actions of Open Government in higher education sector: From web transparency to Open Science

“…As De Blasio [6] notes, digital platforms, institutional repositories, or participatory portals stimulate continuous dialogue and promote knowledge and collaboration processes. Thus, the principles of Open Government allow them to be more open, transparent, efficient, responsible, and collaborative [7].…”

“…Under this trend, the opening of the government in universities has become a medium-term key factor for its legitimacy as it provides greater transparency, improves accountability, and satisfies different needs of the society in general and, consequently, has a positive influence in universities’reputation [ 7 ].…”