Determinants of Successful Administrative Reform A Case in Indonesian National Institute of Public Administration

Most administrative reforms in public organization yield unstatisfactory outcomes. They are blocked outright or implemented less seriously. However, empirical studies that seek to draw lessons from the experience of adminstrative reform implementation are rare. By case studi, the process of reform in Indonesian National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA), we discovered a number of determinants to success. Successful Implementation of administrative reform requires full support from the top leaders, ensuring the need for reform and policy mandate, consolidating internal support and commitment, creating a cross functional team and a strategy for reaching the desired end state, obtaining support from powerful external actors, making reform a dynamic process, and maintaining momentum and political leadership commitment