“Behind a high-performing bureaucracy, there is fundamental alignment, people with the right mindset, agile systems, and outcomes focused on real-world impact,” she said during an international seminar at the National Institute of Public Administration (LAN) building here on Monday.
At the seminar titled Systemic Impact through Transformative Training, she noted that policies often fail due to a lack of alignment between human resources and well-designed policies.
Carrying the spirit of a new reform, Widyantini said the government has prepared alignment programs aimed at enhancing human resources within institutions and ministries through policy and governance pillars.
According to her, proper governance must be based on measurable outcomes, not merely routine work.
“Policies must be implementable, and governance must be measured based on outcomes, not just routine tasks. Governance should involve citizens. We must design services for the citizen experience, not for bureaucratic convenience,” she remarked.
To optimize such alignment, she emphasized that reforms being advanced under President Prabowo Subianto’s leadership require human capital that is intensively trained within an ecosystem.
Furthermore, she highlighted that Indonesia ranked second in ASEAN and 38th globally in 2024 in terms of strategic leadership and human resource management as indicators of a high-performing bureaucracy.
Data from the ASEAN Corporate University shows that human resource management in Indonesia follows a model of 70 percent practice, 20 percent social learning through mentoring and collaboration, and 10 percent formal training and traditional assignments.
Moreover, she expected that the international seminar and cooperation between the Institute of Public Administration (LAN) and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) would help drive transformation to develop globally competitive human resources.
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