This short presentation discussing the Bureaucracy concept to fulfill its public service - in the era of post covid 19, from the perspective of moving from VUCA to BANI Concept, when responding from uncertain dynamics to an incomprehensible environment

1. VUCA – BANI
Post Covid-19
Perspective Bureaucracy on Public Service
Sampe L. Purba
14 May 2022
General Lecture on Post Graduate Disaster Management Study –
University of Indonesia

2. KESEJAHTE
RAAN
MASYARAK
AT
Per-UU-an
[PELAYANAN PUBLIK, AUPB, KEUANGAN
NEGARA]
ADAPTASI
KEBIASAAN BARU
- DIMENSI
ORGANISASI
- DIMENSI SISTEM
KERJA
MAIN ISSUES
1. DISRUPSI DI
BERABAGAI SEKTOR
due to COVID 19
2. REFOCUS PRIORITAS
PELAYANAN DAN
PEMBANGUNAN
3. SAR-PRAS-REGULASI
(mostly) as is
4. SDM DAN APARAT
BIROKRASI (AS IS)
VUCA – BANI
Bureaucracy Transformation for Public Service Post Pandemic 19
PENGELOLAAN
BIROKRASI POST
PANDEMI COVID
19
GLOBAL :USA vs RRC; RUSSIA – EUROPE – ATLANTIC, PANDEMIC
REGIONAL ; BRI vs INDOPACIFIC; KOREA PENINSULA; S&E CHINA SEA
NASIONAL : RADICALISM, TERRORISM, DRUGS, ECONOMIC HARDSHIP
• KEBIJAKAN
• STRATEGI
• UPAYA
ALUR PIKIR
PEMULIHAN
DAN
PENGUATAN
EKONOMI
1.PRO-KER
TERLAKSANA
2.PELAYANAN
MASYARAKAT
TERJAGA

3. Asas-asas Umum Pemerintahan yang baik
 Fungsi Birokrasi Pemerintahan
 Memerintah (to govern  bestuurs functie
 Melayani (to serve/ admin  vervolheid functie
 Asas asas yang diakui dan digunakan [Doktrin, UU, Praktek ] Pretiwi
et.al 2016 :
1. Kepastian hukum 2. Kepentingan Umum 3. Keterbukaan 4. Kemanfaatan 5.
Ketidakberpihakan 6. Kecermatan 7. Tidak menyalahgunakan kewenangan 8.
Pelayanan yang baik 9. Tertib Penyelenggaraan Negara 10. Akuntabilitas 11.
Proporsionalitas 12. Profesionalitas 13. Keadilan
 Discretionary – Subjectivity – Courage  Mentality
 Good faith, Exposures, Risk and Rewards Career
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4. VUCA – BANI : Old Wines in New Bottle ?
VUCA : Volatile - Uncertain – Complex – Ambiguous
 deal with predictable patterns
BANI : Brittle – Anxious – Non linear – Incomprehensible
 deal with deceptive reality
Can you see
how and where
such things
contradics, in
line or intersect
VUCA dynamics, lacks of predictibility, no cause-and-effect chain, haziness of reality
BANI unpredictable, sudden death, fragile;fear of missing out,critical failure of
interconnected system;delaying;improportionality cause and effect, may misread signal
from noise
Bureaucracy  ethics, utility, certainty, compliance, procedure, yurisdiksitas vs legality,
discretion
Bureaucracy
(def. dictionary
Cambridge)
 A system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by
a large number of officials employed to follow rules carefully
 The officials, employees, and people who run gov’t dept and offices, or similar officers and
employees who manage the details of operating a large business
Public Service
Outcome expected
Certainty, Excellence, Affordable, Responsiveness; demanding, benchmarking, participation with
lack of responsibility
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5. How will you put VUCA – BANI Concept in this matrix
PERMENPAN 25 thn 2020 ttg Roadmap Birokrasi
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6. VUCA
Volatility : Speed of change in the world we face , i.e industry, market,
appetite, attitude towards establishment.
 Lack of stability and predictability. vision required
Uncertainty : Element of surprise, permissiveness, simplification
 Lack of forseability to major game changers. Need Understanding
Complexity : Interconnectivity and interdependence
 Vulnerable to chain failure effect, or labyrinth effect. Clarity needed
Ambiguity : lack of clearance, misinterpret.
 Agility is required
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7. BANI
Brittle : susceptible to total and sudden failure
Capacity and resilience
Anxious :
Empathy and mindfulness
Non Linear : Cause and effect may disproportional. Risk not always
be commensurate with return
Context and Adaptivity
 Incomprehensible : Underload or overload analysis, difficult to
understand
 Transparency and Intuition
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8. Public Service – in its ideal form
Governance in Place
Public Participation demanded
Service Rendered Expected : Certainty, Excellence,
Affordable, Responsiveness; demanding,
benchmarking
Excellent Human Resources Capabilites : Kindness,
Future-proof skills, non discriminatory, fairness,
emphatic, a sense of duty,
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9. Concluding Remarks
 VUCA – BANI do matters in
the Post-Pandemic Work
Ecosystem
Cultures, Legal and Socio
Political Factors accounted for,
in bureaucracy to perform its
optimal output
Living at Post Pandemics
queries the VUCA – BANI
concept to respond
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10. Readings
Cekli Setya Pratiwi et.al : Asas-asas Umum Pemerintahan yang baik,
LeIP, 2018
George B, VUCA – A strategy for steady leadership in an unsteady
world, Forbes 2017
PerMenPANRB no. 25 tahun 2020
www:// Stephangrabmeier.de/bani-versus-vuca
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/publicservice
https://apolitical.co/solution-articles/en/how-to-be-a-good-public-
servant-
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11. VUCA – BANI  What term next ?
@ https://stephangrabmeier.de/bani-versus-vuca/#infographic
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12. Sampe Purba – Short Bio
Sampe L. Purba is Senior Advisor to Minister of EMR Indonesia on Economy of Natural
Resources. His main role is to provide strategic advisory on the policy formulation and
management of natural resources, discuss and help solve issues across the concerned
stakeholders and functions. He is also Chair of Committee Audit in Ministry of Energy and
Mineral Resources.
He has been experiencing 30 years assignment with private, semi and government institution in
several technical and managerial positions mainly related to commercial, finance, legal and
audit of oil and gas business management.
He holds bachelor and master degrees in Economics, Accounting, Finance and Law, from some
domestic universities and The University of New South Wales, Australia. He holds a
Management Defense Science Doctoral degree from Indonesia Defense University,
concentrating in Energy Policy and Geostrategy.
Mr. Purba is a member of professional organization, such as IAI, IPA, AIPN, PERADI. In
international organization, he serves as Board member of EITI representing Indonesia as
implementing country and South East Asia region. Recently he is also appointed by the Office
of Australia Prime Minister as one of Panel Experts in Indo-Pacific Clean Energy Supply Chain
Forum.
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