Bureaucracy and Good Governance: Comparing the New Order and the Reform Eras

Abstrak

Bureaucracy sets out the administrative procedures and regulates the work of an organisation. This paper elaborates how bureaucracy is transformed into over-bureaucracy and trapped into bureaucratism, such as what happened during the New Order era. This paper particularly highlights the demobilization and depoliticization of the public supervision and the control functions of other state institutions outside of the executive during the New Order era, and how after the fall of the New Order regime new efforts of good governance and local autonomy that emphasize on public control over governmental bureaucracy emerged.