The Mapping of the Strategic Issues that Affect the Local Governments’ Performance
Abstract: Various strategic
issues that have an effect towards the performance of local governments in
Indonesia are very complex just like the local governments in other countries,
as investigated on previous researches. These strategic issues, which include
the fiscal capacity, the background of the local leaders as entrepreneurs, and
the capacity of management, would have significant influence towards the
performance of local governments. This research tries to conduct the
investigation towards other strategic issues i.e. the characteristics of local
governments, the public entrepreneurship, the strategic environment, and the
enforcement of ethics and accountability of bureaucracy, which is both very
important and very certain in terms of the influence towards the performance of
local governments. As the initial phase of thorough research is related to the
influence of public entrepreneurship towards the performance of local
government, the mapping needs to be conducted in order to ensure the level of
importance and certainty of the
strategic issues with the use of the Strategic Assumption Surfacing Test (SAST)
approach involving the selected experts through limited Focus Group Discussion
(FGD). The results of data processing would give an overview that the characteristics of local governments and
its elements (the regional assets, the fiscal capacity, the capacity of
management and entrepreneurial behavior), the public entrepreneurship
(innovation, the creativity of the individuals within bureaucracy,
proactiveness, risk-taking and public-oriented) are the strategic issues, which
are important and certainly influence the performance of local governments in
Indonesia.
Keywords: characteristics of
local government, performance of local government, public entrepreneurship,
strategic assumption surfacing test
Author: Iman Bastari, M.
Syamsul Maarif, Herien Puspitawati, Lukman M. Baga
Journal Code: jpadministrasinegaragg140066
