THE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION OF SIMPLIFICATION BUREAUCRACY FOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN THE MINISTRY OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUREAUCRATIC REFORM

The bureaucratic simplification policy is a direct direction from the
President and that policy was the first policy which changed structure
massively form structure to functional. Ministry of Administrative and
Bureaucratic Reform as a pilot project for that policy implementation. This
research aims to know The Policy Implementation of Simplification
Bureaucracy For Performance Improvement in The Ministry of
Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform and whats is the problems that
opportunities and challenges the policy implementation of Simplification
bureaucracy for Performance Improvement and what is the ideal model for
Bureaucratic Simplification and then find what is the ideal models for
optimize policy implementation. This research focuses on functional
officers who were transferred from structural officers to functional) and
locus in the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform. Research
design uses qualitative with description approach. The object of this
research is a number of 141 officer structure which transferred to functional
(52 from echelon 3 and 89 echelon from 4). Data is obtained by using
interview, observation and documentation study from 35 informants .
Primary data that was obtained by interview and processed with analyzes on
theory Policy Implementation by Edwards George III 1980, Theory and
Simplification Bureaucracy with Guollart & Kelly with Development
Organization Theory and for increasing performance using Cascio Theory
1992. All primary data especially from interview put in to coding with each
informant as formulation regulator (Echelon I), implementor (echelon II)
and target group (functional from echelon 3 and 4), but cause of the covid
situation, part of officers work from home, I do less observation but do in
deep interview via zoom. The result finds that the implementation policy of
simplification bureaucracy has not optimize yet in accordance with the goals
and objectives or has not brought significant changes especially in
increasing performance. To do implementation for this policy needs another
policy (lack of policy) especially for reward and punishment, performance
appraisal, work mechanism) and changed culture organization (mindset and
culture set).