Public service motivation on the state civil apparatus: Local government policies strategy in administration reform

Abstract

It is time for state servants to provide services to society in a professional, honest, fair and equitable manner in carrying out state, government and development tasks. This study aims to realize the attitude of state servants who must be neutral from the influence of all political groups and parties and not be discriminatory in providing services to the community. In the legal and governmental aspects, bureaucratic reform is a very strong issue to be realized. The methodology used in this research is descriptive qualitative with an effort to explain the phenomena in the field related to the Indonesian government bureaucracy which is suspected to have contributed greatly to the occurrence of various public service crisis management. The findings of this study indicate that there is a bureaucratic culture that is thick with bureaucratic politicization and the lack of transparency in public services. The mainactor public services has not prioritized fair service to the community. Therefore, bureaucratic reform is expected to be corrective measures against the Government’s political policies so that bureaucratic neutrality occurs.