Indigeneous Public Administration: Public Administration Viewed from Local Wisdom Perspective

Abstract

Global transformation is always demands a good governance system and one of the functions that must be run is public administration's system. The impact of powerful globalization streams, should be anticipated as well as possible. Public Administration with the developed values of western modernity, sometimes make us glare about the progress and forget the values of the identity of local wisdom that we have. Whereas, the Public Administration that is appropriate with local wisdom will be less than the western Public Administration's model. This paper critically discusses the concept of public administration based on local wisdom (public) models which have been publicized in various countries, including Indonesia. A review and reconstruction of ideas, concepts and theories on Government and Governance. The main issue is that it is not always the western administrative model that is able to solve the problems of public administration and has been successfully implemented in various regions in responding to the local culture. Keywords— public administration, local wisdom, indigenious