What Makes Master of Public Administration Program Chosen by Indonesian Civil State Apparatus?

摘要

Improvement on the competence of the Indonesian State Civil Apparatus (ASN) is a must for each apparatus and the government is obliged to manage its implementation to strengthen the professionalism of the apparatus. The phenomenon of the raise of corruption rate with various modes, the policy is not in sync with its implementation, the dominancy of spoil system than the merit system, public services that are slow and imprecise become the issue and concern. The question is how to prepare ASN competence to set up and solve these problems? Law No. 5 of 2014 confirms that competency is the basis of apparatus performance assessment. One of the strategies by increasing the competence through education and training. Education on the level of Master of Public Administration (MAP) is one solution to increase the competence of ASN as a candidate for middle and high leadership of the motor of the bureaucracy as well as the prevention of phatology bureaucracy that happened so far.