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Early childhood education is believed to play important roles not only in the life of young children, but also for a countrys development and hence the Indonesia government has attempted to developed integrated and holistic services from different sectors to optimize early childhood education in the country. Beneath the strategy, lies an idea that children possess certain rights that need to be fulfilled by the state, society, and family. This paper aims to examine the implementation of the holistic integrated approach of early childhood education and development in Indonesia or known as PAUD HI. Using document analysis and site visits that includes interviews with various stakeholders at eleven districts of five provinces in Indonesia, this paper would like to see some issues and possibilities when the policy is being adopted. The findings suggest that there are two main issues with regards to the implementation of the policy, namely the governance and the extent to which the policy can directly reach the children. However, the finding also suggests some best practices pertaining the implementation of the policy such as the policy as best implemented when there exists collaboration and coordination in the village level. This seems to suggest that the implementation of policy could be optimised when the approach is bottom up instead of top down. The finding calls for a better governance system, a more child -centred approach policy as well as the bottom up policy that takes into account people-s voices so that the policy is relevant with the need of the people.