The Social Sciences

Year: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 10
Page No. 1884 - 1896

The Relationships Between Bureaucratic Officers and Political Officers: A Case Study of the Intervention of the Political Officers in Case of Recruitment, Assessment and Promotion of the Bureaucratic Officers in Southeast Sulawesi

Authors : Azhari

Abstract: This study was conducted to answer the question that is rife in Indonesia after the implementation of regional autonomy through Law No.: 22 of 1999 on regional government which has been revised by Law No: 32 of 2004 and Law No.: 12 of 2008 which are both about local government. Since, the policy of decentralization, there are many positive aspects such as the level of success found in certain areas such as Gorontalo but the problem is no less interesting is the growing strength of the politicization of the bureaucracy that occurs at the level of local government. The condition is exacerbated by the recruitment of civil servants, promotion and mutations that are no longer heed the aspect of professionalism of the bureaucracy, particularly in the governor of Southeast Sulawesi before the election of 2007 to the inauguration of governor election in 2008. Hundreds of bureaucratic officials made the but of governors with their policies mutation multiple times in a span of 1 year. The condition is interesting to study what causes political officials in this case the governor and regent and the Mayor is so easy to hold transfer and promotion of bureaucracy without any clear standards. In an effort to conduct this research, researchers based the design on the theory of the political system as a grand theory and the theory of the division of powers as the middle range theory and the theory of bureaucratic and political relations regulations as operational theory. The method used in this research was a qualitative descriptive method with the hope to describe and outline the fact findings in the field clearly and systematic. Through this research, it was found that the relationship of political and bureaucratic officials in Indonesia took place in ascendency executive models. This pattern is a kind of relationship pattern that puts political officials as bureaucratic control officers in accordance with the policies of the political parties that support the political officials in question. Political forces that influence the bureaucracy as well as derived from the head of an official bureaucracy, also comes from the parliament and the structure of the party bureaucracy embraced by the political authorities from central to local level as happened during the New Regime (ORBA). But as for his post-ORBA with the decentralization policy in Indonesia, the pattern of the relationship between political and bureaucratic officials, especially in the regions are no longer sufficient called a model of pure ascendency executive. The condition is caused by the fact that until now, Indonesia still uses the Weberian Bureaucratic model that laid the political officials as supreme leader in the hierarchy of bureaucratic positions. Therefore, the head of the region have full authority in the process of formation of bureaucracy without any other institutions that can act as a counterweight or group supervision means that the policy of local leaders in career management bureaucracy. This study suggests to stakeholders in public policy-making in order to immediately hold a re-design of public bureaucratic management in Indonesia by placing the bureaucracy in the management of an independent commission as it happens and is practiced in other countries such as Malaysia, Japan, Singapore and the United States.

How to cite this article:

Azhari , 2017. The Relationships Between Bureaucratic Officers and Political Officers: A Case Study of the Intervention of the Political Officers in Case of Recruitment, Assessment and Promotion of the Bureaucratic Officers in Southeast Sulawesi. The Social Sciences, 12: 1884-1896.

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