Summary of publication

The Indonesian Government has initiated substantial and tangible actions over the past two years to give effect to a thoroughgoing program of administrative and civil service reform, reformasi birokrasi.

The purpose of examining bureaucratic reform in Indonesia in greater detail is to improve understanding of the relationships between bureaucratic reform and the Indonesian Government's efforts to improve the quality of public services and to meet the needs of citizens.

The assumptions behind this study are that there are a number of generic bureaucratic reform issues that impact on service delivery across Indonesia, and that addressing these issues may be expected to have a large impact on the scope and quality of services delivered to citizens. This analysis would be expected to test those assumptions and assist in guiding the direction and scale of possible future Australian Government support in this sector.

The analysis was undertaken between early September and 1 November 2012 in Canberra and Indonesia.

Full publication

Indonesia Bureaucratic Reform Initiative Sector Analysis [PDF 1.1 MB]