Personnel Reform: Perspectives on Civil Servants Promotion in Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to identify problems in the implementation of bureaucratic reform in the field of employment, especially civil servants’ promotion. This study is carried out using a qualitative approach with the case study method. The data collection technique is done using observation, documentation study, and interviews with two key informants. The data is then analyzed in several stages, namely data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The findings indicate that there is an injustice and non-transparent phenomenon in civil servants’ promotion, especially in the initial promotion, promotion by extraordinary work performance, and promotion by graduation certificate. This condition has the potential to cause corruption, collusion, and nepotism, and might reduce employee performance in providing public service.

Indonesian Women’s Civil Service Leadership: Analysis of Career Progression Opportunity and Constraint

“…Since a career in the civil service lasts a lifetime, the women in our sample became civil servants prior to legislation on the State Civil Apparatus (Krissetyanti, 2018), which focused on merit based, open recruitment, promotion and retirement of officials, when career advancement was arguably harder. Nonetheless, promotion mechanisms over the last decade have remained complex, and processes continue to lack fairness and suffer from charges of corruption (Ali & Kusmana, 2022; H. McLaren & Qonita, 2020; Saputra & Saputra, 2021; Widianingsih et al, 2018).…”

“…Evidence shows a lack of staff diversity, unfair human resource practices, corruption from the village to national levels of government, and biased process in the Indonesian civil servants' promotion (H. McLaren & Qonita, 2020;Saputra & Saputra, 2021;Widianingsih et al, 2018). Ali and Kusmana (2022) explored the phenomenon of civil service promotion. They found that there was unfairness and exposed the lack of transparency in promotion process, suggesting corruption, collusion, and nepotism, as well as diminishing employee performance in delivering public service.…”

“…McLaren & Qonita, 2020; Saputra & Saputra, 2021; Widianingsih et al, 2018). Ali and Kusmana (2022) explored the phenomenon of civil service promotion. They found that there was unfairness and exposed the lack of transparency in promotion process, suggesting corruption, collusion, and nepotism, as well as diminishing employee performance in delivering public service.…”