Corporate social responsibility disclosure by state-owned enterprises in Indonesia

Purpose: This article aims to investigate the extent to which State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Indonesia disclose their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs to the general public. Design/Methodology/Approach: Quantitative design is used as the main method in the study. Corporate profiling is used for analyzing SOEs profile and program profiling is used to analyze the profile of CSR programs implemented by SOEs. Findings: The study concludes that, first, SOEs under study disclose their CSR programs to the general public. In terms of indicators it is difficult to conclude that CSR programs disclosed by SOEs signify corporate virtuous citizenship embedding the initial ideas of CSR. Practical implications: Practical implications of the study are two-folds. First, that SOEs in Indonesia, need to strengthen the institutional drivers of CSR, and put pressure on companies to move beyond philanthropy, rhetoric, legitimization, imagery, and public relations to substantive engagement in CSR and genuine attempts at change and development. Second, the implementation of CSR programs by SOEs is judicially liable to public auditing. Originality/Value: The value of this study strengthens arguments which hold that the implementation of CSR, even implemented by SOEs, functions more as corporate survival mechanism rather than for solving social and environmental problems.peer-reviewe

Decentralization and Community Welfare : Lesson Learnt From Indonesia and The Case of Special Autonomy of Papua

Decentralization refers to a commonly accepted meanings of reversing the concentration of administration at a single center and conferring powers of local government. Therefore, it is regarded as a political phenomenon capturing delegation of power to lower level of government. The main objective of decentralization is to create the most efficient and accountable form of government possible. Three forms of decentralization are recognised, deconsentration, delegation and devolution. The claims of this article, first of all, is to advocate social accounts at explainning the level of community welfare across communities. Having discussed theoretical as well as empirical accounts on the relationship between decentralization policy and community welfare, it is concluded that such relationship is inconclusive and ambigue. The case of Special Autonomy of Papua demonstrate an extreme case of paradoxical decentralization policy aimed to foster welfare for local people in particular the welfare of indigenoeous Papuans.Despite the fact of inclusive results and ambiguity, it also reveals that many studies strongly indicated that dicentralization policy predict improvement of community welfare at least through four mechanism, such as fiscal capacity, administrative capacity, institutional design of policies and the role of local political leadership. Given that all, this article finally comes to five recommendations. Firstly, tohave a closer and serious attention on social accounts that works at mediating any technical organization including decentralization policy. Secondly, to take rigorous measures on local community welfare both objective as well as subjective measures. Thirdly, to articulate the need for rigorous measure on performance of local government using both an official local government performance measurement system such as EKPPD, EDOB and EKPOD as well as an internationally accepted measures such as ISO, CAF and the like. Fourtly, to continue applying community development strategy as well as enforcing greater roles of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Finally, to recommend the need for more systematic research agenda and rigorous assesment on both theoretical ground type of research as well as applied policy type of research that employs both quantitative and qualitative approach as well as comparative study and case study in order to make decentralization works for improving welfare across communities.Keywords: decentralization, social accounts, community welfare, stuctural mediation, Papua.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Tulisan ini mencoba menggali gagasan mengenai apa dan bagaimana revitalisasi sistem pendidikan dan pelatihan yang didasarkan pada landasan teoritis dan pengalaman empiris dalam kaitannya dengan administrasi publik dalam menghadapi otonomi daerah dan perubahan global yang tidak bisa dihindari. Administrasi publik sebagai suatu ilmu, seni dan juga suatu profesi akan memberikan pengaruh dalam memilih dan mendidik pegawai negeri. Oleh karena itu pendidikan untuk administrator publik harus diarahkan pada kemampuan untuk dapat memahami kerangka konseptual administrasi publik, politik, konstitusional, kultural dan perubahan lingkungan yang sedang berlangsung

Revitalisasi Konsep Publik Dalam Pemikiran dan Praktek Pembangunan Kota Bandung Lestari

Sustainable development is defined as the ability to ensure the fulfillment of the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of sustainable urban development is crucial because at the beginning of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population live in urban areas. By using the concept of sustainable development and comparing the empirical facts about the reputation of the city of Bandung with other cities in Indonesia, this paper aims to a hypothesis stating that the realization of becoming a champion city of Bandung, as politically announced by its mayor, remains a tremendous challenge. Four critical issues need to be addressed, both by city government of Bandung as well as by its citizens, in order to promote sustainable urban development. These are, firstly, how to meet the considerable needs of the entire population of Bandung as the fight against poverty through employment and adequate public services. Secondly, how to establish a political system that guarantees the participation of the population Bandung effectively in the decision making process and ensure the application of greater democracy in both national and international levels. Thirdly, how to control the number of population and to promote lifestyle changes, both the manager and the people. Fourthly, how to build political will at encouraging all of them can be realized. At the end, this article concludes that the revitalization of publicness as central concept in sustainable development has now met its momentum, yet it needs the tireless efforts

Revitalisasi Konsep Publik Dalam Pemikiran dan Praktek Pembangunan Kota Bandung Lestari

Sustainable development is defined as the ability to ensure the fulfillment of the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of sustainable urban development is crucial because at the beginning of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population live in urban areas. By using the concept of sustainable development and comparing the empirical facts about the reputation of the city of Bandung with other cities in Indonesia, this paper aims to a hypothesis stating that the realization of becoming a champion city of Bandung, as politically announced by its mayor, remains a tremendous challenge. Four critical issues need to be addressed, both by city government of Bandung as well as by its citizens, in order to promote sustainable urban development. These are, firstly, how to meet the considerable needs of the entire population of Bandung as the fight against poverty through employment and adequate public services. Secondly, how to establish a political system that guarantees the participation of the population Bandung effectively in the decision making process and ensure the application of greater democracy in both national and international levels. Thirdly, how to control the number of population and to promote lifestyle changes, both the manager and the people. Fourthly, how to build political will at encouraging all of them can be realized. At the end, this article concludes that the revitalization of publicness as central concept in sustainable development has now met its momentum, yet it needs the tireless efforts

Desentralisasi dan Sistem Pengukuran Kinerja Pemerintah Daerah: Kajian Independen Terhadap Sistem Evaluasi Kemampuan Penyelenggaraan Otonomi Daerah (EKPOD)

Implementation of decentralization in Indonesia, as mandated by Law Number 32/2004, has three main objectives, which include improving the welfare of society, public services, and regional competitiveness. This study holds an assumption the that the importance of Local Government Performance System, both in order to reduce euphoria as well as to ensure the accomplishment of decentralization goals that set out by the law. The ministry of Home Affairs, has developed three local government performance measurement system as mandated by PP Number 6/2008, namely: the evaluation system of new autonomous regions (EDOB), the evaluation of local governance performance system (EKPPD), and the evaluation of regional autonomy capacity (EKPOD). This study assesses the framework and applicability of the EKPOD system. Using data from 17 Districts/ municipal governments, the researcher conclude that EKPOD data are limited. With respect to data availability, these are limited to 2004-2006 period, which is not long enaugh to use in assessing the EKPOD system which requires 5 years in succession. Of the required 175 data units, only 40-60% are available (70-105 data units). These findings and statistical factor analysis, suggest that the number of EKPOD indicators should be reduced to 19 with 25 data elements. This will not only enhance system applicability, but also reduce financial resources needed to establish he baseline data by 86 percent

Bringing the public back in : revitalisasi konsep publik dalam pemikiran dan praktek administrasi publik di Indonesia

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