Head of the Research and Development Agency at the Ministry of Home Affairs Agus Fatoni has asked regional governments to keep staying committed to bureaucratic reform because it is essential to realize a clean and capable government, as well as to improve the quality of public services.

The bureaucratic reform is conducted by referring to eight areas of change, including the management of change, public service, supervision, accountability, institutions, as well as structuring the management sector, human resources (HR), and policy deregulation, he said.

In carrying out the bureaucratic reform in those eight areas, the regional governments need to implement policy breakthroughs in six innovation areas, Fatoni said in a statement that ANTARA received here Sunday.

Those six areas of innovation are essential and in line with the goals of bureaucratic reform so that changes could be realized more quickly, he said.

In detail, he expounded that innovation in the six areas includes administrative innovation, management innovation, policy innovation, frugal innovation, as well as innovation in the technology and social sectors.

For administrative innovation, the regional governments can adopt new ways of managing administration so that their performance accountability and decision making can be more effective and efficient.

He explained that innovation in the management area is an innovation that mainly focuses on fixing procedures and bureaucracy in a bid to improve organizational performance.

“The regional governments can make efforts to form policies that are more efficient, selective, applicable, and can be adopted by various parties to solve problems,” he said.

Aside from that, the regional governments are expected to generate product innovations at lower costs to respond to limited availability of resources. That step, he said, is called frugal innovation.

Meanwhile, for innovation in the technology sector, the regional administrations can adopt new production processes by doing a series of research and development, or in other words, technology transfer.

“Innovation in the social sector must also be included. This effort is aimed to improve socio-economic conditions and realize more inclusive development,” he remarked.

Source: Antara News