plain ideas for improving Indonesia

SHAPING THE PERFORMANCE ACCOUNTABILITY OF ELECTED POLITICAL LEADERS IS KEY, WRITES RUDY M. HARAHAP. In the post-Suharto era, Indonesia has undertaken radical public sector reform. Following advice from international donor agencies, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), Indonesia has decentralised government business. Central government now shares some of its power with local governments. To enhance managerial accountability, each local government has produced an independent financial report as practiced in subsidiary companies of a private sector organisation. Indonesia has also popularised direct democracy as practiced in Western countries to select political leaders at central and local government levels. Some scholars have defined these changes as a ‘big bang’ reform. To provide better public services, changing the behaviour of public sector officials has been a popular undertaking for elected political leaders. When Jokowi was elected a...

What do you thing? Are we Indonesians a hierarchist society? These are the indication of a hierarchist society: - High grid: Societies rely on rules, regulations, and enforcement - High group: Collective prevails over the individual This society is mostly cohesive and rule-bounded. Please advise me. 

I think this is the right decision from KPK. Minister of Home Affairs should not only talk about complying to formal law. He should also consider the ethical consideration about this matter. Inaugurating an officer in the jail is not a good view to be shown to the people. S KPK Rejects Suspect’s Inauguration, Blasts Ministry - The Jakarta Globe : 'via Blog this'

An interesting article to read. It could also be referred when you writing undergraduate thesis.  ---- In this guide, Tara Brabazon gives her top ten tips for doctoral failure My teaching break between Christmas and the university’s snowy reopening in January followed in the footsteps of Goldilocks and the three bears. I examined three PhDs: one was too big; one was too small; one was just right. Put another way, one was as close to a fail as I have ever examined; one passed but required rewriting to strengthen the argument; and the last reminded me why it is such a pleasure to be an academic. Concurrently, I have been shepherding three of my PhD students through the final two months to submission. These concluding weeks are an emotional cocktail of exhaustion, frustration, fright and exhilaration. Supervisors correct errors we thought had been removed a year ago. The paragraph that seemed good enough in the first draft now seems to drag down a chapter. My postgradu...

A recommended article to explain the different between "to influence" and "to command/control". The ability to influence others is a basic competency of leaders. However, what they thought "to influence" sometime it meant "to command/control". Of course, one of the failures in leading the people is when leaders give too much attention in command and control. They should change the way how they lead. Source: http://smartblogs.com/category/leadership/inspiring-others/ The ability to influence others may be the most important thing leaders do. An organization I work with lists influence as one of its top leadership proficiencies. Their description, paraphrased: “The ability to generate support from others to achieve desired business outcomes. Leaders who exhibit this competency apply it in a planned and strategic way, never randomly. They motivate people to want to follow them even when they don’t have to,” When I ask leaders what influ...