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This is a tough question, and there is no body can answer it except the time. The new PM has started his tour or “BLUSUKAN,” a trendy word from Indonesia, as we saw from the news. That is a good start although it remains far from enough to reach the core. There are lots of issues that just himself could not address as we all expect. People noticed that we have wicked-problems. One thing, the bureaucratic structural modification is a fact-based change and seems would work better. It has removed the complicated and overlapping structures within every public institution. Previously, lots of people had a hard time to distinguish the responsibilities among a minister, secretary state, and director general in a given ministry. It affected the bottom line to work. Directors, technical coordinators more often than not got confused to whom to get instructions, signatures, etc. It often ensued in an institution where it had lack of collaboration caused by the different political background and vested interests playing in there. This situation has changed structurally, however, the substantial change is still challenging down the road. As I name this situation as one of the wicked problems, the solutions should come from every leadership level, and importantly from the people who are executants. The new PM may have to channel his thought-to-be-revolutionary ideas through the bottom lines, and not only to establish but, be able ensure its sustainability. The so-called team work in public institutions should be promoted. It must have been adopted, but the discussion, and consultation culture involving the bottom folks should be enhanced in order to glean the best ideas and ensure the sense of responsibility from everyone. In a plain language, inclusive in a defined and alienated public participation is required in order to match the spirit of bureaucratic reformation in the public institutions. This sounds too high to afford as one would argue in our context, but this is a kind of less hypocritical opinion that one would have when it comes to the bureaucratic reformation.
Also, if I
did a survey for people’s preference about the physical development outcomes, most
of the regular citizens would say that the results are short-sighted, and short-term
oriented products, which do not reflect the intention of the National Strategic
Development Plan (SDP). In addition, the capital development coordination is usually
known to be disintegrated or dispersed. The new PM’s good spirit should
importantly be able to shake these dispersions and sort them into the
appropriate venues. And that would be regarded as a change. Again, to achieve a
sustainable bureaucratic reformation that affects the good quality of capital
development outcomes, the people whose brains and muscles are highly required
should be regarded in every crucial decision making process.
The last, I
always put the voluntary work effort as the most potent way to respond to our
wicked-problems. This must come from the young generations who are very passionate
when they start looking for a job once they graduated from the formal or
non-formal education institutions. We should start to fill the gaps with no
monetary profit in mind. Everyone needs money to survive, but money is not
everything. I hope that the new PM who is also the first generation of the new
generation would think to promote this unpopular method. He could put forward
and embed the idea indirectly into the relevant policies on how to harness the
untapped young generations to have dual long-term benefits: one is to dig out
more on their own potentials or to trial their just-gotten theories, and the
second is the government gets helped by the young people to do something that it
can’t do due to the limited resources. Also, young individuals could also
initiate themselves to work voluntarily based on their personal circumstances
such as personal hobby and or even professional skills that might be helpful. The
combination of young generation from these two fronts would probably do
something. I have written the voluntary stuffs in my previous-previous posting
to say that we are not alone who think that voluntary work is good.
To wrap
this up, the New PM has started his moves in order to change the status-quo
both structurally and substantially. The lower tier leaders he leads may need
to be able to dictate policies and decisions he initiates. His policies should
be able to tap the resources from the bottom level. He only has one physique
with huge authority, and that he may be able to meet the high expectation of
the people if he could shake everyone to work together and being complementary.
**Hope this gives you an inspiration
