Direct Regional Head Election in Pancasila Democracy Perspective

The purpose of this study is to find and analyze the suitability of filling in the position of Regional Head with a direct election system (direct local election) with the essence of Pancasila Democracy and finding and analyzing the concept of the system of filling in the ideal Regional Head position in the future. This research is a normative legal research, that is research that puts the law as a norm system, namely regarding the principles, norms of legislation, agreements and doctrines (teachings). The problem approach used in research uses several approaches, namely the approach of legislation (statute approach), problem approach (conceptual approach), historical approach and philosophical approach. The results of the study showed that the system of direct Regional Head Election hasn't been appropriate with the essence of Pancasila Democracy. The essence of Pancasila democracy is democracy that is based on the values or the joints of Pancasila, especially the 4th principle of Pancasila, which is formulated as "Democracy led by the wisdom of deliberations among representatives”. In addition, the results of the study indicated that the application of solutions related to the election of Regional Heads at both the provincial and district levels so that at the provincial level elections could use the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) as representatives of regional head elections while at the district level could use elections directly through the people. Keywords: DPRD, Election of Regional Head, Democrac

The Effectiveness of Leadership Change Related to Public Service Improvement at the Local Revenue Office of East Java Province

This study aimed to determine and analyze the effectiveness of leadership change in the framework of improving public services at the Regional Income Board of East Java Province which was expected to increase the potential of locally-generated revenue of East Java. The research methods used guided interview and observation, and it applied qualitatively descriptive analytical technique in its analysis based on the phenomenon. The results showed that this leadership change was considered to be very effective because it could encourage leaders to create new innovative, brilliant and strategical ideas. So, it could improve the quality and performance of public services both intensively and extensively with the increase of the locally-generated revenue (PAD). The effectiveness of leadership change of the Head of Technical Implementation Unit of the Agency (KUPTB) had been considered successful because the various changes were felt, especially on the increase of locally-generated revenue (PAD) in each KUPTB which was then calculated globally throughout East Java. Keywords: leadership, effectiveness, local revenue offic