The politics of local government environmental evaluations: Assessing bureaucracy in post-Reformasi Indonesia
This article argues that bureaucracy plays politics in Indonesia, not only during the electoral periods, but also in public service. Using the case of environmental evaluation in local government, where natural resources comprise most of the local economy, this article discusses the politics of bur...
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oai:doaj.org-article:6e69f8221f6649baa29d9b5bec62be4d2021-12-02T14:05:02ZThe politics of local government environmental evaluations: Assessing bureaucracy in post-Reformasi Indonesia10.24135/pjr.v26i2.11341023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/6e69f8221f6649baa29d9b5bec62be4d2020-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1134https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 This article argues that bureaucracy plays politics in Indonesia, not only during the electoral periods, but also in public service. Using the case of environmental evaluation in local government, where natural resources comprise most of the local economy, this article discusses the politics of bureaucracy in undergoing daily governing processes. The environment and natural resource businesses are two opposing fields. Environmental evaluation becomes a contentious area and is usually highly political. This article identifies the bureaucracy’s politicisation in environmental evaluation as occuring in at least in two forms—in measurement and in project implementation. In terms of measurement, bureaucracy tends to use minimum standards, while in project implementation, there are some occasions where bureaucracy tends to sub-contract the work to the third party, usually NGOs, especially in relations to sensitive issues, so that it is politically safer for them, once the result is not as pleasing as expected. This article uses some cases in Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Central Java, and Bangka Belitung, and applied case study as research approach. Laila AlfirdausS. Rouli ManaluAsia Pacific Networkarticlebureaucracycase studiesenvironmentenvironmental communicationenvironmental evaluationsIndonesiaCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 26, Iss 2 (2020) |
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This article argues that bureaucracy plays politics in Indonesia, not only during the electoral periods, but also in public service. Using the case of environmental evaluation in local government, where natural resources comprise most of the local economy, this article discusses the politics of bureaucracy in undergoing daily governing processes. The environment and natural resource businesses are two opposing fields. Environmental evaluation becomes a contentious area and is usually highly political. This article identifies the bureaucracy’s politicisation in environmental evaluation as occuring in at least in two forms—in measurement and in project implementation. In terms of measurement, bureaucracy tends to use minimum standards, while in project implementation, there are some occasions where bureaucracy tends to sub-contract the work to the third party, usually NGOs, especially in relations to sensitive issues, so that it is politically safer for them, once the result is not as pleasing as expected. This article uses some cases in Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Central Java, and Bangka Belitung, and applied case study as research approach.
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The politics of local government environmental evaluations: Assessing bureaucracy in post-Reformasi Indonesia |
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