Exploring Open Government Partnership as a Strategy for Promoting Transparency in Private University: An Initial Study

Abstract

In Indonesia, high cost of tuition at private higher education is impunity for some students. A private higher education does not obtain any flow of funds from government and is required to self-financial-management by its foundation. Furthermore, students are reluctantly to study at private higher education and having lack of confidence because of the opaque data. The education system of private higher education is still not adopting the concept of openness data. Besides, Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a global partnership to make government more open, transparent, effective and accountable. Public disclosure can increase confidence towards government. Our case study is a district that pioneer of OGP implementation, Bojonegoro. Yet, this study is an initial research as well as to develop the research in assessment phase of the model and to align the system of government and education. The result showed that four media of OGP are possible to be applied at the level of university, which consist of public dialogue, the way of budgeting transparency, public aspirations through software, and radio broadcast that all are strongly affected by availability of the media and motivation of the stakeholders as crucial factors of the success of the strategy.