Fitri Slagi,master’s degree in Public Administration at the University of Delaware
Posted January 10th, 2010 by adminFitri Slagi studied at the West Java STPDN (School of Local Administration) and now works for the Department of Home Affairs in Human Resources. She says that there are many difficult issues in the decentralization of government activities: political, administrative, and fiscal. The bureaucracy needs to be effective, efficient, and transparent, and to respond to the public interest. Most of the problems are rooted in human resource needs.
She says that the lack of skilled, qualified, and professional resources starts with lack of educational standards, formal education qualifications, and work ethos, and leads to corruption, collusion, and nepotism. There is also the problem of brain drain from local to central locations. Another issue is the need to promote the role of women in the bureaucracy.
Fitri Slagi is studying for a master’s degree in Public Administration at the University of Delaware. Her goal on return is to improve the career development system in her department, to improve the training, work culture, mind set and organizational values of the bureaucracy.
