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The most appropriate strategy to enhance civil servants’ neutrality in the governance

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  • Shinta Hadiyantina

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Purpose - Comprehensive basis to measure civil servants’ neutrality in the effectuation of concurrent regional head elections, valid basis to determine the most appropriate strategy to enhance civil servants’ neutrality in the governance. Design/methodology/approach - This research is a normative or doctrinal research. Secondary data are retrieved from the literature in the forms of legal documents and regulations concerning civil servants’ role in general elections. In this research, two products of law were analyzed as follows: first, the one related to the urgency of civil servants’ neutrality in regional head election and second, the one related to the synchronization of legal norms about civil servants’ neutrality during regional head elections. Data analysis was done using a juridical qualitative analysis model. Findings - The urgency of neutrality is real in the implementation of concurrent regional head elections due to 3 reasons as follows: Historically, state civil apparatus neutrality and regulations. There is a synchronization of the neutrality of the civil state apparatus in the legislation concerning civil state apparatus with the laws and regulations concerning the implementation of concurrent regional head elections including the following: Act Number 5 of 2014, Act Number 10 of 2016 and Act Number 8 of 2012. Originality/value - The study investigated the neutrality of civil servants during the concurrent regional head election in Indonesia. The objectives of this research were investigating, comprehending and analyzing the urgency of civil servants’ neutrality in regional head election, and describing and analyzing the synchronization of civil servants’ neutrality based on the laws related to civil servants and laws related to the effectuation of concurrent regional head election.

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  • Shinta Hadiyantina, 2020. "The most appropriate strategy to enhance civil servants’ neutrality in the governance," Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 37(1), pages 61-78, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:jeaspp:jeas-03-2019-0031
    DOI: 10.1108/JEAS-03-2019-0031
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