The Effect of Bureaucratic Reforms Implementation for Optimizing of Governance in Indonesia (Focus on the Public Service Innovation in Local Government Institutions)

The deep-rooted pathology in public services and the high demands on its quality improvementencourage the government to focus on service functions, especially during the Joko Widodoand Jusuf Kalla Administration. In line with Nawacita (nine programs), their electionpromise, and the bureaucratic reforms planning of 2015-2019, the improvement of publicservice delivery becomes one of the most important issues. This paper uses the descriptivemethod and inductive approach with interviews, observation, and documentation as datacollection techniques. The result shows that the Public Service Innovation Competitionheld by the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reforms (PANRB)can generate innovations that succeeded in bringing changes and greatly affect theimplementation of the Bureaucratic Reforms to the optimization of governance in Indonesia,especially in local governments.Keywords: innovation, public service, bureaucratic reforms, good governance