Javanese Culture in Internal Control in Government Bureaucracy
Mutia Rizal
Gadjah Mada University
Socio Yusticia Street No. 1, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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Department of Public Policy Management
Faculty of Social and Politic Sicences
Abstract
Local culture, including Javanese, has a treasure of values and principles that have deep roots in society. These values and principles are able to manifest in behavior, including in terms of self-control when working in a bureaucratic environment. In an atmosphere of formal and rational bureaucracy, various noble values that are characteristic of Javanese culture are sometimes not easily integrated into bureaucratic modernity. The research conducted at a government agency in the Special Region of Yogyakarta uses ethnometodology, to get a critical understanding of the dialectics of local culture with bureaucratic rationality. The research intends to provide a new perspective on the need to manage local culture in an effort to optimize internal control in the government bureaucracy. The success of fusing is influenced by many factors, videlicet the ability to get vertical and horizontal consensus, understanding the meaning of contestation, and the accuracy of understanding the alignment of the needs of the organization with its members. In the context of internal control in organizations, local cultural values are mostly able to survive and become reinforcement of internal control, but some other local cultural values are shifted by bureaucratic modernity due to several conditions.
Keywords: local culture; javanese culture; internal control; bureaucracy
Topic: Public Policy, Public Service and Sustainable Development