Bureaucratic Red Tape and Discretion of Street Level Bureaucracy:

Implication of Food Diversification Policy in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210629.051How to use a DOI?

Keywords

bureaucratic red tape, diskresi, street-level bureaucracy, policy implementation, food diversivication

Abstract

Street level bureaucracy is a government employee who provides community services where their activities are often trapped in the bureaucracy red tape phenomenon which is formalized and too procedural. This condition sometimes requires the actors involved to take discretionary action. The main objective of this study is to explain the relationship between red tape and discretion in the implementation of food diversification policies. The methodological approach used in this study is qualitative with an explanatory type to explain the implications of the bureaucratic red tape phenomenon as well as discretion making by street level bureaucracy on the implementation of food diversification policies. The theoretical pattern used is the policy implementation network, namely the relative stability of a network’s membership, the network’s relative insularity, the strength of resource dependencies in overcoming bureaucratic red tape and supporting discretion by street level bureaucracy. The results show that there is a red tape phenomenon in the bureaucracy, such as rigid and convoluted procedures as well as formalization of hierarchical rules and structures that lead to policy delay. The discretion taken by the actors has also not been able to optimally answer public needs. In addition, the policy network sector, namely the relative stability of a network’s membership, the network’s relative insularity, the strength of resource dependencies has not been able to run effectively according to what has been understood.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Didik Iskandar
AU  - Alwi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/01
TI  - Bureaucratic Red Tape and Discretion of Street Level Bureaucracy:
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Administration Science 2020 (ICAS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 269
EP  - 274
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210629.051
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210629.051
ID  - Iskandar2021
ER  -