Journal of Social and Policy Issues

Maturity of Data Interoperability Cross-Organizations in Supporting the Concept of One Employment Data at the Ministry and Regional Government Levels

Herpita Wahyuni — 2026-09-30

This study examines the factors influencing the maturity of employment data interoperability between organizations at the ministry and local government levels. It investigates four variables: Preparedness, Understanding, Command Style, and Ethos. A mixed-methods approach, combining interviews and quantitative surveys with purposive sampling, was conducted in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. Data were analyzed using SEM-PLS to assess validity, reliability, and hypotheses. The results show that all four variables have a positive and significant effect on employment data interoperability. Preparedness highlights the importance of organizational readiness, including human resources, infrastructure, and governance support. Understanding contributes through shared knowledge of data standards, integration mechanisms, and interagency coordination. Command Style has the strongest influence, emphasizing the strategic role of leadership and coordination by the Indonesian Ministry of Labour (Pusdatik) in promoting standardized and integrated data management. Ethos reinforces interoperability by fostering collaboration, organizational commitment, and a supportive culture. The interoperability maturity assessment indicates that organizations have achieved Level 3 (Integrated), reflecting adequate coordination and integration capabilities. However, stronger implementation at the regional level is still needed to ensure sustainable interoperability. These findings underscore the importance of effective leadership, continuous capacity building, training, and collaborative organizational culture in strengthening long-term employment data interoperability.

External Complaint Handling Mechanisms in Population Data Governance at the Kemendukbangga/BKKBN Bengkulu Provincial Representative Office

Ahmad Abdullah Alfarisi — 2026-09-30

Purpose This study analyzes the external complaint handling mechanism in population data governance at the Kemendukbangga/BKKBN Bengkulu Provincial Representative Office, amid the institutional transformation that followed (Perpres No. 180 Tahun 2024, n.d.) and (Perpres No. 181 Tahun 2024, n.d.). Method This study uses a qualitative approach with a case study design. Primary data were collected through in-depth interviews with key informants from the Accountability Division and the Public Information Disclosure Division, together with non-participant observation, and were complemented by secondary data in the form of budget and performance documents (RKAKL, Renstra, LAKIP, and Performance Agreements). The analysis used the interactive model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña, with validation through source triangulation and member checking. Findings The three dimensions of complaint management show uneven maturity. Complaint channels are available through multiple routes, but their stimulation is weak because public participation is low and budgetary support is extremely minimal. Complaint handling is fully resolved on the formal audit channel with no outstanding recommendations, but is vulnerable for routine complaints because provincial-level regulations have not yet been aligned. The analysis and utilization of complaints have not been systemically institutionalized because technical feedback has not been aggregated into organizational learning. Implications The institution needs to build an integrated digital complaint channel, a data-dispute handling SOP aligned with the new nomenclature, and a complaint aggregation mechanism for organizational learning. Originality This study applies the complaint management framework in its entirety to the domain of population data governance during institutional transformation, a combination of contexts that has rarely been examined.

Recentralization through Territorial Proliferation: Historical Institutionalism and Path Dependence in Papua's 2022 Regional Restructuring

Elsa Martha Epifania — 2026-09-30

This article examines Papua's 2022 territorial proliferation as a case of institutional path dependence and recentralization within Indonesia's asymmetric decentralization framework. Previous studies have explained the reform mainly through agenda-setting dynamics, welfare implications, or administrative efficiency, but they have paid less attention to why territorial proliferation repeatedly reappears as a familiar state instrument in Papua. This study addresses that gap by asking how earlier institutional choices made the 2022 restructuring politically and legally reusable. Using qualitative document analysis and three semi-structured interviews with policy actors and experts from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Secretariat of the Vice President, and National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), the article traces the recurrence of two policy instruments: special autonomy (Otonomi Khusus/Otsus) and territorial proliferation (pemekaran daerah). The documentary materials include legislation, academic drafts (naskah akademik), parliamentary materials, government documents, policy reports, previous academic studies, and media sources related to the 1999 proliferation attempt, the 2001 Otsus settlement, the 2008 institutional adjustment, and the 2021-2022 revision and proliferation cycle. The findings show that the 2022 proliferation reproduced an institutional policy already embedded in Papua governance. Law No. 2 of 2021 altered authority by strengthening central control over fiscal allocation, implementing regulations, development planning, and the authorization of new autonomous regions (DOB). The article argues that Papua's 2022 proliferation decentralizes administrative form while recentralizing political and fiscal substance. It contributes to comparative debates on decentralization by showing how territorial reform can expand subnational units while narrowing local institutional discretion.

Transformation of Population-Data Coordination Networks after Kemendukbangga's Formation in Bengkulu

Maysyah Indah Fitriyani — 2026-09-30

This study analyses how the coordination network for population-data integration at the BKKBN Provincial Office of Bengkulu was transformed after the National Population and Family Planning Board (BKKBN) became the Ministry of Population and Family Development (Kemendukbangga) in late 2024, and what that transformation implies for coordination effectiveness. A qualitative descriptive single-case design was employed at the Provincial Office. Data came from semi-structured interviews with three internal key informants, the Secretary of the Provincial Office and the heads of two functional Working Teams, supported by observation and documentation, and were analysed through historical institutionalism along three dimensions: path-dependency dynamics, gradual institutional change, and implications for coordination effectiveness. Four findings emerge. First, the network's position rests on inherited by-name-by-address micro-data and informal trust rather than on structural authority. Second, change proceeds through layering and conversion rather than displacement and is read internally as continuity. Third, a dual formal-informal architecture is undermined by interlocking technical, organisational, personal, and incentive barriers. Fourth, a recognition gap with external partners signals an emerging drift. The transformation is therefore best characterised as institutional continuity punctuated by gradual change and shadowed by sustainability risk. Resilience depends on formalising informal channels, reforming cader incentives, and preserving institutional memory.

Collaborative Policy Advocacy Model in Local Public Policy Formulation

Jaka Maulana — 2026-09-30

The This study aims to formulate a collaborative policy advocacy model for local public policy formulation. This article employs a qualitative approach with a conceptual study design by synthesizing literature on policy advocacy, the Advocacy Coalition Framework, collaborative governance, public participation, policy networks, policy brokers, and local policy formulation. The findings show that local policy formulation requires an integrated framework that connects public issues, collaborative actors, deliberative arenas, advocacy instruments, policy outputs, and policy outcomes. The proposed model positions public issues, community needs, and affected groups’ aspirations as inputs; local government, local legislature, civil society, academics, media, communities, private actors, vulnerable groups, and policy brokers as collaborative actors; and dialogue forums, public consultations, public hearings, and multi-stakeholder forums as deliberative arenas. Advocacy coalitions, policy evidence, policy briefs, advocacy narratives, and media engagement function as instruments for translating public demands into policy alternatives. The study concludes that collaborative policy advocacy can strengthen local public policy formulation by improving responsiveness, participation, accountability, and social legitimacy. The model contributes theoretically to public policy studies and practically offers a framework for local governments and policy actors to design more inclusive and legitimate policy formulation processes.

Rational Community Boycott in Response to the Failure of Tourism Policy’s Interpretive Effects: An Analysis of the Collapse of Tourism Awareness Groups (Pokdarwis) in Lima Puluh Kota, Indonesia

Fitria Deswika — 2026-09-30

This study aims to explain why 29 Tourism Awareness Groups (Pokdarwis) in Lima Puluh Kota Regency, Indonesia, have become inactive despite tourist arrivals reaching a post-pandemic peak of 749,139 visitors in 2022—a paradox that cannot be adequately explained by the human resource capacity deficit framework commonly employed in the literature. Employing a qualitative approach with a most-different comparative case study design, the research compares Lembah Harau, where Pokdarwis is inactive, and Kapalo Banda Taram, where community-based tourism management remains active. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with twelve key informants, field observations, and policy document analysis. The data were analysed using Miles and Huberman's interactive model, integrating Campbell's (2012) Policy Feedback Theory and Olson's (1965) Collective Action Theory. The findings reveal that the collapse of Pokdarwis in Harau resulted from systemic failures across three dimensions of interpretive effects: exploitative administrative design, the erosion of psychological proximity due to centralised governance, and the formation of negative interpretive meanings regarding state intervention. In contrast, these three dimensions operated positively in Taram, enabling Pokdarwis to remain active without direct intervention from the tourism agency. The study concludes that community non-participation constitutes a rational boycott—a deliberate and calculated collective response to policy failure rather than an expression of apathy. These findings extend the applicability of Policy Feedback Theory to community mobilisation in the context of tourism governance in developing countries.

Asset Recovery as a Criminal Law Enforcement Instrument for Recovering State Losses

Mario Marco — 2026-09-30

This study examines the role of asset recovery in criminal law enforcement and the legal mechanisms available to recover losses to state finances in Indonesia. It applies normative legal research using statutory and conceptual approaches. The primary legal materials include Indonesia’s anti-corruption legislation, the Mutual Legal Assistance Law, and the United Nations Convention against Corruption, supported by legal scholarship, academic publications, and relevant institutional documents. The findings indicate that asset recovery has become an important part of criminal law enforcement because it shifts the focus beyond the punishment of offenders toward the recovery of unlawful economic benefits and the restoration of state financial losses. In practice, asset recovery may involve asset tracing, seizure, confiscation, replacement-money orders, asset management, execution, and international cooperation when assets are transferred or held abroad. These mechanisms give asset recovery repressive, restorative, and preventive functions. However, its implementation still faces several challenges, including the concealment and transfer of assets, evidentiary difficulties, weak coordination among institutions, problems in managing confiscated property, and cross-border jurisdictional barriers. The study concludes that stronger regulations, better financial investigation capacity, improved institutional coordination, effective asset management, and closer international cooperation are needed to make asset recovery more effective in restoring state financial losses.