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Social Media and Poverty: Paradoxes of Communicating Poverty Issues on Social Media Wahyunengseh, Rutiana Dwi; Hastjarjo, Sri; Suharto, Didik G.
BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi Vol. 25, No. 3
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From the democratic theory perspective, social media is a means to improve collaborative public governance between government, society, and business sector, in order to ensure effective public issues management as well as public services. On the other hand, there are preconditions for the effective use of media social; in the context of addressing poverty issues, these preconditions have potential to generate certain paradoxes. This article aims to answer a question “Is the use of social media effective to the poverty alleviation mainstreaming issue?” This study was conducted in one of the cities that won Smart City Award in Indonesia; using content analysis on the "Monggo Lapor" Facebook group combined with the mapping of Local Government Apparatus and poor people group’s perception on the use of social media for poverty issue through focus group discussion. The data then was analyzed using Institutional Theory approaches to identify the paradoxes that emerge from the using of social media in process of communication addressing poverty issues. The result shows that poverty issues were marginalized in the discussion using Facebook group, because of the culture of the bureaucracy in the local government and the culture of the society. The paradoxes arising were, i) democratic-elitist; ii) functional-artificial ones. The emerging paradoxes resulted from the inconsistency of the Local Government in implementing e-government for addressing poverty issues and the elitism in using the social media as a tool for power control by society. Social Media “Monggo Lapor” has not functioned intensively as the means of expressing voice and communicating between people and government for poverty issue, but it had functioned intensively for non-poverty issues, so that non-poor group enjoy its usefulness more. It indicated that the group with excess power had a higher ability of using social media. This paper recommends further research focusing on building social media readiness model, particularly for developing an inclusive regulation for poverty alleviation.
The Social Accountability Paradox in the Regional Democratic Budget Policy Making Wahyunengseh, Rutiana Dwi; Hastjarjo, Sri
BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi Vol. 21, No. 3
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Social accountability has been believed as an approach to overcome the deficit of the formal accountability (both horizontal and vertical accountability). Social accountability is percieved as a public accountability which is initiated by and aimed for the society. Several studies found the effectiveness of social accountability in encouraging a more transparent government and a wider public involvement. Those studies identified variables which contribute to the social accountability, i.e. the degree of government openness; the density of community organizations and their advocation capability; social, political, and cultural environment; and the public information accessibility. Data for this paper is collected through in-depth interviews and focused group discussion with the major players in the budget policy making process, including local government officers, members of local house of representatives (DPRD), and activists of the local community groups in the Regency of Karanganyar. This paper argues that despite its effectiveness, social accountability also produce some counterproductive excesses. The term social accountability paradox is used in this paper to represent the abuse of social accountability and it risks. This paper aims to identify the practices of social accountability abuse in the local budget policymaking process, with the case of the Regency of Karanganyar. Based on the study, there are some requirement to be fulfilled In order to increase the social accountability of the public budget policy making process, i.e. (1) revision of regulations to encourage a more transparency in the budget public information; (2) the development of community-based monitoring and dialogues forums; and (3) the increasing of the capability of community groups in conducting social accountability audit.
Challenges in Implementation of ICT for the Budget Accountability and Development of Budget Information Literacy Wahyunengseh, Rutiana Dwi; Hastjarjo, Sri
BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi Vol. 20, No. 1
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In the case of Karanganyar Regency, this study identify that al­though the public aspire to have an adequate understanding about the APBD, the access for obtaining the information is very limited. Data collection methods used in this research were: (1) documents study on the Local Government Development Plan (RKPD) and the Regional Budget (APBD); (2) semi open-ended questionnaires; (3) in-depth interviews; and (4) focus group discussions. The data then analyzed using descriptive analysis and interpretive analysis methods. This paper recognizes the potency of ICT in developing the forum for public access and deliberation related to the budget information; while also identifies the challenges facing the implementation of ICT for the local budget accountability and the development of budget information literacy among the public.
Digital Competitiveness and Poverty Index Quadrant: Mapping the Digital Public Administration Challenge (Evidence from Indonesia) Wahyunengseh, Rutiana D; Hastjarjo, Sri
BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi Vol. 30, No. 2
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The role of the internet in reducing poverty has been tested in several countries. However, according to bibliometric analysis, not much has been studied from the perspective of inclusive digital public administration. This research's novelty is to complements the digital governance research by analyzing the relationship between digital competitiveness and poverty rates in Indonesia. This study aims to map the challenges of developing digital governance in Indonesia in the context of promoting sustainable development and more inclusive society. The research method uses descriptive quantitative with quadrant analysis techniques. The data used are the poverty rate from the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics in 2021 and the Digital Competitiveness Index. The results of the study show: (i) there is a digital divide or digital poverty that contributes to the Digital Competitiveness gap; (i) the behavior of digital users for productivity is still low but shows an increase from the previous year. In conclusion, digital development must be designed to pursue inclusive and pro-poor development, supported by productive human resources. Further research is recommended to examine the correlation between components of the digital development index and the components of the poverty index to build model of inclusive digital public administration.