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This paper offers a different explanation to the policy change process as a capillarity process. Open government partnership (OGP), is an idea of government openness with the aim of empowering, fighting corruption, and utilizing new technology to strengthen governance by involving multi-stakeholders. OGP was officially launched on September 20, 2011 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting where the Heads of State of the 8 founding governments, including Indonesia, supported the OGP Declaration and announced their countrys action plans together. At the local level, the Bojonegoro District Government is one of those who implemented OGP even though its success has been awarded, not only at the national level but also at the international level. In previous studies, the implementation OGP in Bojonegoro understood as a Suyoto matter, the regent who has idea of OGP in Bojonegoro, but in another study it seen as as a consequence for Indonesia as one of OGP inisiator to implement OGP at the national level up to the local level. However however, not all regions apply OGP and not all OGP ideas of Suyoto are immune from the influence of global OGP ideas. Global ideas influence can not be ignored as it can enter by capillarity process through academic forums and cooperation more massive well held by the epistemic community at the international, national, even in the local level. The notion of territorial isolation in the policy process is an illusion. Thus, the process of decentralization policy should be seen as an intermestic phenomenon. The author use advocacy coalition framework to understand the mapping of the pro-cons of the decentralization idea in the domestic and international sphere as the basis concept. The second is epistemic community that has main role to strengthen the ideas to influence the policy change process. The explanation will be managed in three parts; OGP initiation in Bojonegoro, the mainstreaming of OGP idea in the world, and the capillarity process of OGP implementation in Bojonegoro by intermestic learning.