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Abstract The study of moral issues in public administration has been dominated by instrumental values about achieving goals, not by the goals themselves. History about the values adopted by public administration as far as starting from the classics with effectiveness and efficiency to those considered contemporary with democracy and participation are mostly hurly-burly. Public administration, therefore, tends to be out of its context. Phenomenology and even anthropology studies are not strong enough to coloring the development of public administration ethics. In the Indonesian context, moral values in public administration research and practice appear to be undeveloped properly yet. The doctrine of dichotomy in public administration is so ingrained. The public administration has no determined their moral values themselves. With a meta-analysis approach, the results of the study show that public administration in Indonesia has not cared about efforts to look for its moral values, except values that are currently popular in global discourse. It has an impact on the vulnerability of sustainable development effort. It is unrooted policies anyway except a phenomenological approach to the ethics field.