Javanese Culture in Internal Control in Government Bureaucracy

Abstract

: Local culture, including Javanese, has a treasure of values and principles that have deep roots in society. These values and principles are able to manifest in behavior, including in terms of self-control when working in a bureaucratic environment. In an atmosphere of formal and rational bureaucracy, various noble values that are characteristic of Javanese culture are sometimes not easily integrated into bureaucratic modernity. The research conducted at a government agency in the Special Region of Yogyakarta uses ethnomethodology, to get a critical understanding of the dialectics of local culture with bureaucratic rationality. Dialectics can both be traced through the process of external adaptation and internal integration. The research intends to provide a new perspective on the need to manage local culture in an effort to optimize internal control in the government bureaucracy. In addition, the research also aims to provide a picture as well as a clue about how the process of fusing local culture with culture in government organizations which has been dominated by modern values. The success of fusing is both influenced by many factors, videlicet the ability to get vertical and horizontal consensus, understanding the meaning of contestation, and the accuracy of understanding the alignment of the needs of the organization with its members. In the context of internal control in organizations, local cultural values are mostly able to survive and become reinforcement of internal control, but some other local cultural values are shifted by bureaucratic modernity due to several conditions.