Civil Service System and Civil Service Reform in ASEAN Member Countries and Korea is the second development to the first book, Public Administration and Public Governance in ASEAN Member Countries and Korea, which served as a milestone for understanding the rising economic significance of ASEAN nations in the world market. First published in 2009, the first book entitled Public Administration and Public Governance in ASEAN Member Countries and Korea offers a collection of essays and comparative studies that provide an insightful introduction to public administration and public governance in ASEAN countries, including socio-political perspectives(historical development, government, structure, and society); the current status of public administration and public governance(the central government, local governments, civil service, public management, etc.); major issues and challenges to public sector reforms in recent years(public administration and education programs, research, and professional associations in public administration); and newly demanding tasks as well as future reform plans.
This book is a new collection of manuscripts on civil service prepared by leading experts in the ASEAN member countries. The term civil service generally refers to governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit and political neutrality as proven by competitive civil service entrance examinations. The term explicitly excludes the armed services and the scope of civil servants varies from country to country. Over the years, after a wide range of public sector reform around the world, significant civil service reform took place in ASEAN member countries with substantial variations among each country. Since civil service is every country’s basic foundation of governmental operation, its innovation is not optional in order to cope with new challenges in the public sector. Almost every country is initiating some sort of reform measures around the world. Such reform efforts could affect each country’s public management and overall performance of the government. Accordingly, this book reviews civil service systems and civil service reforms in ASEAN member countries.
There are five original ASEAN member countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei joined ASEAN on January 1984, Viet Nam on July 1995, Laos and Myanmar on July 1997, and Cambodia on April 1999. ASEAN was first conceived to reconcile countries that were in dispute with each other. Later, the countries sought the benefit of acting jointly and strengthening the association with main objectives including the acceleration of economic growth, social progress, and cultural development among its members, the promotion of regional peace, and promoting active collaboration and mutual assistance to promote Southeast Asian studies. This book intends to generate more discussion on general public administration, the civil service system and civil service reforms of the ASEAN member countries and ROK.
During global economic stagnation around the world, many Asian countries maintained substantial growth rates in the period from 1965 to 1990. The explanations for these high rates of growth vary. There is a general agreement that high savings have permitted very high levels of investment in the ASEAN economies. There are limited consensusesabout the exact reasons for this fast growth and the role government and public administration has played in the ASEAN economic progress. Undoubtedly, the development of effective policies for education and training, improved governance and the creation of a skilled workforce have playeda crucial role in these economies. For example, a World Bank report on Singapore commented: The phenomenal development of Singapore has taken place despite the lack of natural resources and the absence of a large domestic market. This remarkable success has been attributed largely to sensible and effective policies and the early attention paid to Singapore’s infrastructure and manpower resources(Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, 1992).
ASEAN-ROK regional collaboration on information technology, human resources development, cultural exchanges, medical assistance and Mekong Basin development cooperation was established in November 1989. Korea became the full dialogue partner of ASEAN in mid-1991 and elevated to a summit level in 1997. The importance of development cooperation between ASEAN and Korea was driven by the deepening interdependence between the two economies, which are expected to grow in importance in the coming years. Since then, ASEAN-ROK development cooperation has been expanded to cover areas of trade, investment, tourism, science and technology, and the environment. Cooperation in the areas of human resource development, people-to-people exchange and bridging the development gap has been given due attention.
This book focuses on the civil service system and civil service reforms in ASEAN countries and ROK. Many of the ideas presented in this book were discussed at the International Seminar on Civil Service System and Civil Service Reforms in ASEAN Member Countries and ROK held in Seoul, South Korea from May 23-26, 2010. Experts from ASEAN countries and ROK gathered to discuss and share experiences of their country’s civil service system and civil service reforms. The forums held in 2008 and 2009 resulted in the publication of the first book. In addition to the articles submitted by scholars, this book includes an ASEAN countries and ROK civil service system and reforms comparison table that gives more summarized concrete data on each country’s civil service system.
It is expected that the ASEAN-ROK public management forum will serve as a stimulating dialogue among scholars and practitioners in the field of public administration in the ASEAN member countries and the Republic of Korea. It will also provide a useful resource for public administration scholars and practitioners to better understand the achievements made in ASEAN member countries and the prospects of further development in the future.
I hope that through such meetings and collaborations, a series of publications and dialogues on public affairs can be sustainably developed that will also serve as a learning mechanism between ASEAN member countries and ROK as well as the rest of the world. Lastly, I want to express my gratitude to all the participants of the seminar for their active participation and dedication to the seminar and the publication of this book. I would like to thank Mr. Thongphane Savanphet and Ms. Carla Budiarto in the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta for their continuous support. Last but not least, many thanks go to the ASEAN Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Republic of Korea. Especially, I would like to acknowledge that the ROK-ASEAN Development Cooperation Program was very helpful in supporting the forum and its related projects.
Pan Suk Kim
차 례
Preface/7
Chapter 1 Introduction 11
Chapter 2 Civil Service and Public Private PartnershipReforms in Brunei: Progress and Challenges 23
Chapter 3 Cambodian Civil Service: Transforming froman “Administrator" into a “Service Provider" 56
Chapter 4 A Review of Civil Service System andCivil Service Reform in Indonesia 89
Chapter 5 Civil Service Reform in Lao People’s DemocraticRepublic: Improving Service Delivery 126
Chapter 6 Civil Service System and Civil ServiceReform in Malaysia 152
Chapter 7 Civil Service System and Civil ServiceReform in Myanmar 185
Chapter 8 Civil Service Reforms in the Philippines:Its Many Faces, Leadership and Politics 210
Chapter 9 Civil Service Reform in Thailand:A Perspective in Transition 253
Chapter 10 Civil Service System and Reform Singapore 286
Chapter 11 Reforming the Civil Service In Viet Nam:Differentiation, Merit, Incentives andChallenges 319
Chapter 12 Korean Civil Service System and CivilSevice Reform 357
Index 394
List of Contributors 410
저자약력
Nik Rosnah Wan Abdullah is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Administrative Studies and Politics, Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of Malaya. She received her Ph.D. degree from Sussex University, Sussex, UK and MPA from Liverpool University, UK. She was a Senior International Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Her area of expertise includes regulatory reform, public policies, public sector management, health sector reform, human resource management, and administrative reform. She is the author of the book “Regulating the Private Health Sector in Malaysia.” In addition, she has published articles in her field of expertise.
Jairo Acuna Alfaro is a Policy Advisor on Public Administration Reform and Anti-Corruption at the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP)-Viet Nam(Hanoi) since October 2007. He has completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of Oxford, and has MA in Political Economy from the University of Essex. He was editor of “Reforming Public Administration in Vietnam: Current Situation and Recommendations” in 2009.
Suresh Balakrishnan is Chief Technical Advisor with the United Nations Development Programme for Governance and Public Administration Reform Programme for the Prime Minister’s Office, Lao PDR. Balakrishnan has been as a management researcher, civil society activist, development consultant, and now an international civil servant. Over the last six years, he has been teaching at the International Programme for Development Evaluation Training, organized by Carleton University, Ottawa and the World Bank. He has been closely involved in the evolution of citizen report cards, an evaluation approach that gives “voice” to the unheard; this approach is being mainstreamed into public administration reform initiati- ves in several countries.
Ros Bandeth is currently a researcher at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute(CDRI). She holds a Masters degree in Environmental Management from Massey University, New Zealand. Her research experience is in human resource management and decentralisation, participation, community-based natural resource management, and water governance.
Alex B. Brillantes Jr. is a Professor and Dean of National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines(UP-NCPAG), Secretary-General of the Association of Schools of Public Administration of the Philippines(ASPAP), and Deputy Secretary General of the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration(EROPA). He served as Executive Director of the Local Government Academy(LGA) of the department of Interior and Local Government(DILG), and Director of the Center of Local and Regional Governance(CLRG) of the UP-NCPAG. He got his Ph.D. and MA from the University of Hawaii, and an MPA from the University of the Philippines. He has written three books and has published papers on local government, development administration and civil society in local and international journals.
Do Thanh Huyen is a Local Policy Support Officer, UNDP Viet Nam since July 2008. She has MA in Development Studies from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Before her MA, she worked as Project Officer for the Danida-funded project “Support to Implementation of the Law on Water Resources” under the Water Sector Programme Support for three years, and taught English at the Foreign Trade University for two years in Viet Nam.
David Jones is a member of staff in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Policy Studies, University of Brunei Darussalam. Previously, he held various academic posts in Singapore and elsewhere. These included Associate Pro- fessor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Adjunct Professor, School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Local Director in Singa- pore, Masters in Public Administration Programme, Australian National University. He was awarded his doctorate at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests cover public sector reform, public service management, public budgeting, government procurement, land administration and agrarian reform.
Pan Suk Kim is currently the President of the International Institute of Administration Science(IIAS) and the Director of Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Devel- opment(IPAID) at Yonsei University. He is also Professor of Public Administration in the Collage of Government and Business at Yonsei University in Korea. He has published widely on public administration, public governance, and public sector reform including civil service reform. He has served as Secretary to the president for Personnel Policy in the Korean government and has been a member of United Nations Committees of Experts on Public Administration(UN/CEPA) since 2006.
Htay Htay Lwin is Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Economics, and Director of the Master of Public Administration(MPA/EMPA) Programme at Yangon Institute of Economics, Yangon, Myanmar since 2007. She was also a Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Economics, and Director of the Master of Public Administration(MPA) Programme at Meikhtala Institute of Economics, Mandalay Division, Myanmar. She also served as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Economics, Meikhtila Institute of Economics, Mandalay Division, Myanmar from June 2001 to April 2003.
Eng Netra is currently a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Monash University, Australia. Her current research project examines the relationship between decentralization and accountability, and whether the reorganization of institutions enables changes of power relations of the Cambodian state. Prior to pursuing her doctorate research, she was a researcher at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) where she conducted and published several works on decentralization design, service delivery of local governments, accountability and leadership at village level, and human resource management. She was also a member of the consultant team assisting the Cambodian government to formulate the National Programme for Sub-National Demo- cratic Development for the next ten years.
Pairote Pathranarakul is Assistant Professor and Vice President for Administration of the National Institute of Development Administration(NIDA) in Bangkok, Thailand. He used to serve as Associate Dean for Planning and Development and Associate Dean for Administration at Graduate School of Public Administration(GSPA/NIDA). Holding an MPA(Hons) in Public Policy and Project Management, Graduate School of Public Administration, NIDA and a Ph.D. in Regional and Rural Development Planning, Asian Institute of Technology, he currently teaches graduate courses in public management and project planning and management courses at NIDA. He specializes in public sector management standard and project planning and evaluation. His research interest areas are public management, governance and reform, innovation management, and corporate crisis and risk management.
Eko Prasojo is a professor in the Department of Administrative Science in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. Most recently, he holds a position as the head of the Postgraduate Program of Administrative Science, Universitas Indonesia. He is a good governance and administration reform consultant for the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucracy Reform, through the aid project from Germany for Indonesia. In addition, he is a member of the Local Autonomy Advisory Board, who actively gives input and considerations to the president for any decentralization and local autonomy matter. His publications include: “State Reform in Indonesia,” “The Politics of Decentralization in Indonesia,” “Deregulation and Debureaucratization in Indonesia,” and “Local Government in Indonesia.”
Jon S. T Quah was Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore and co-editor of the Asian Journal of Political Science until his retirement in June 2007. He is now an anti-corruption consultant based in Singapore. He has published extensively on anti-corruption strategies and civil service reform in Asian countries, and public administration in Singapore. He is the author of Curbing Corruption in Asia: A Comparative Study of Six Countries(Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2003); Combating Corruption Singapore- Style(Baltimore: School of Law, University of Maryland, 2007); and Public Administration Singapore-Style(Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, April 2010).
Jose O. Tiu Sonco II is a Senior Lecturer at the National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines(UP-NCPAG) in Manila.
Khammoune Viphongxay is Vice Chairperson of the Public Administration and Civil Service Authority, in the Prime Minister’s Office, Lao PDR. He is a career civil servant, specialized in public administration. His recent areas of work include decentralization reforms, development of civil society and creation of local councils. Dr. Khammoune is on the faculty of the National Academy of Politics and Public Administration. He is a member of several key committees including State Committee for Organizational Improvement. He is also the Project Director for UNDP’s Governance and Civil Service Reform Project, as well as the Civil Society Project.
Civil Service System and Civil Service Reform in ASEAN Member Countries and Korea is the second development to the first book, Public Administration and Public Governance in ASEAN Member Countries and Korea, which served as a milestone for understanding the rising economic significance of ASEAN nations in the world market. First published in 2009, the first book entitled Public Administration and Public Governance in ASEAN Member Countries and Korea offers a collection of essays and comparative studies that provide an insightful introduction to public administration and public governance in ASEAN countries, including socio-political perspectives(historical development, government, structure, and society); the current status of public administration and public governance(the central government, local governments, civil service, public management, etc.); major issues and challenges to public sector reforms in recent years(public administration and education programs, research, and professional associations in public administration); and newly demanding tasks as well as future reform plans.
This book is a new collection of manuscripts on civil service prepared by leading experts in the ASEAN member countries. The term civil service generally refers to governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit and political neutrality as proven by competitive civil service entrance examinations. The term explicitly excludes the armed services and the scope of civil servants varies from country to country. Over the years, after a wide range of public sector reform around the world, significant civil service reform took place in ASEAN member countries with substantial variations among each country. Since civil service is every country’s basic foundation of governmental operation, its innovation is not optional in order to cope with new challenges in the public sector. Almost every country is initiating some sort of reform measures around the world. Such reform efforts could affect each country’s public management and overall performance of the government. Accordingly, this book reviews civil service systems and civil service reforms in ASEAN member countries.
There are five original ASEAN member countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei joined ASEAN on January 1984, Viet Nam on July 1995, Laos and Myanmar on July 1997, and Cambodia on April 1999. ASEAN was first conceived to reconcile countries that were in dispute with each other. Later, the countries sought the benefit of acting jointly and strengthening the association with main objectives including the acceleration of economic growth, social progress, and cultural development among its members, the promotion of regional peace, and promoting active collaboration and mutual assistance to promote Southeast Asian studies. This book intends to generate more discussion on general public administration, the civil service system and civil service reforms of the ASEAN member countries and ROK.
During global economic stagnation around the world, many Asian countries maintained substantial growth rates in the period from 1965 to 1990. The explanations for these high rates of growth vary. There is a general agreement that high savings have permitted very high levels of investment in the ASEAN economies. There are limited consensusesabout the exact reasons for this fast growth and the role government and public administration has played in the ASEAN economic progress. Undoubtedly, the development of effective policies for education and training, improved governance and the creation of a skilled workforce have playeda crucial role in these economies. For example, a World Bank report on Singapore commented: The phenomenal development of Singapore has taken place despite the lack of natural resources and the absence of a large domestic market. This remarkable success has been attributed largely to sensible and effective policies and the early attention paid to Singapore’s infrastructure and manpower resources(Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, 1992).
ASEAN-ROK regional collaboration on information technology, human resources development, cultural exchanges, medical assistance and Mekong Basin development cooperation was established in November 1989. Korea became the full dialogue partner of ASEAN in mid-1991 and elevated to a summit level in 1997. The importance of development cooperation between ASEAN and Korea was driven by the deepening interdependence between the two economies, which are expected to grow in importance in the coming years. Since then, ASEAN-ROK development cooperation has been expanded to cover areas of trade, investment, tourism, science and technology, and the environment. Cooperation in the areas of human resource development, people-to-people exchange and bridging the development gap has been given due attention.
This book focuses on the civil service system and civil service reforms in ASEAN countries and ROK. Many of the ideas presented in this book were discussed at the International Seminar on Civil Service System and Civil Service Reforms in ASEAN Member Countries and ROK held in Seoul, South Korea from May 23-26, 2010. Experts from ASEAN countries and ROK gathered to discuss and share experiences of their country’s civil service system and civil service reforms. The forums held in 2008 and 2009 resulted in the publication of the first book. In addition to the articles submitted by scholars, this book includes an ASEAN countries and ROK civil service system and reforms comparison table that gives more summarized concrete data on each country’s civil service system.
It is expected that the ASEAN-ROK public management forum will serve as a stimulating dialogue among scholars and practitioners in the field of public administration in the ASEAN member countries and the Republic of Korea. It will also provide a useful resource for public administration scholars and practitioners to better understand the achievements made in ASEAN member countries and the prospects of further development in the future.
I hope that through such meetings and collaborations, a series of publications and dialogues on public affairs can be sustainably developed that will also serve as a learning mechanism between ASEAN member countries and ROK as well as the rest of the world. Lastly, I want to express my gratitude to all the participants of the seminar for their active participation and dedication to the seminar and the publication of this book. I would like to thank Mr. Thongphane Savanphet and Ms. Carla Budiarto in the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta for their continuous support. Last but not least, many thanks go to the ASEAN Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Republic of Korea. Especially, I would like to acknowledge that the ROK-ASEAN Development Cooperation Program was very helpful in supporting the forum and its related projects.
Pan Suk Kim
차 례
Preface/7
Chapter 1 Introduction 11
Chapter 2 Civil Service and Public Private PartnershipReforms in Brunei: Progress and Challenges 23
Chapter 3 Cambodian Civil Service: Transforming froman “Administrator" into a “Service Provider" 56
Chapter 4 A Review of Civil Service System andCivil Service Reform in Indonesia 89
Chapter 5 Civil Service Reform in Lao People’s DemocraticRepublic: Improving Service Delivery 126
Chapter 6 Civil Service System and Civil ServiceReform in Malaysia 152
Chapter 7 Civil Service System and Civil ServiceReform in Myanmar 185
Chapter 8 Civil Service Reforms in the Philippines:Its Many Faces, Leadership and Politics 210
Chapter 9 Civil Service Reform in Thailand:A Perspective in Transition 253
Chapter 10 Civil Service System and Reform Singapore 286
Chapter 11 Reforming the Civil Service In Viet Nam:Differentiation, Merit, Incentives andChallenges 319
Chapter 12 Korean Civil Service System and CivilSevice Reform 357
Index 394
List of Contributors 410
저자약력
Nik Rosnah Wan Abdullah is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Administrative Studies and Politics, Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of Malaya. She received her Ph.D. degree from Sussex University, Sussex, UK and MPA from Liverpool University, UK. She was a Senior International Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Her area of expertise includes regulatory reform, public policies, public sector management, health sector reform, human resource management, and administrative reform. She is the author of the book “Regulating the Private Health Sector in Malaysia.” In addition, she has published articles in her field of expertise.
Jairo Acuna Alfaro is a Policy Advisor on Public Administration Reform and Anti-Corruption at the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP)-Viet Nam(Hanoi) since October 2007. He has completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of Oxford, and has MA in Political Economy from the University of Essex. He was editor of “Reforming Public Administration in Vietnam: Current Situation and Recommendations” in 2009.
Suresh Balakrishnan is Chief Technical Advisor with the United Nations Development Programme for Governance and Public Administration Reform Programme for the Prime Minister’s Office, Lao PDR. Balakrishnan has been as a management researcher, civil society activist, development consultant, and now an international civil servant. Over the last six years, he has been teaching at the International Programme for Development Evaluation Training, organized by Carleton University, Ottawa and the World Bank. He has been closely involved in the evolution of citizen report cards, an evaluation approach that gives “voice” to the unheard; this approach is being mainstreamed into public administration reform initiati- ves in several countries.
Ros Bandeth is currently a researcher at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute(CDRI). She holds a Masters degree in Environmental Management from Massey University, New Zealand. Her research experience is in human resource management and decentralisation, participation, community-based natural resource management, and water governance.
Alex B. Brillantes Jr. is a Professor and Dean of National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines(UP-NCPAG), Secretary-General of the Association of Schools of Public Administration of the Philippines(ASPAP), and Deputy Secretary General of the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration(EROPA). He served as Executive Director of the Local Government Academy(LGA) of the department of Interior and Local Government(DILG), and Director of the Center of Local and Regional Governance(CLRG) of the UP-NCPAG. He got his Ph.D. and MA from the University of Hawaii, and an MPA from the University of the Philippines. He has written three books and has published papers on local government, development administration and civil society in local and international journals.
Do Thanh Huyen is a Local Policy Support Officer, UNDP Viet Nam since July 2008. She has MA in Development Studies from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Before her MA, she worked as Project Officer for the Danida-funded project “Support to Implementation of the Law on Water Resources” under the Water Sector Programme Support for three years, and taught English at the Foreign Trade University for two years in Viet Nam.
David Jones is a member of staff in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Policy Studies, University of Brunei Darussalam. Previously, he held various academic posts in Singapore and elsewhere. These included Associate Pro- fessor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Adjunct Professor, School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Local Director in Singa- pore, Masters in Public Administration Programme, Australian National University. He was awarded his doctorate at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests cover public sector reform, public service management, public budgeting, government procurement, land administration and agrarian reform.
Pan Suk Kim is currently the President of the International Institute of Administration Science(IIAS) and the Director of Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Devel- opment(IPAID) at Yonsei University. He is also Professor of Public Administration in the Collage of Government and Business at Yonsei University in Korea. He has published widely on public administration, public governance, and public sector reform including civil service reform. He has served as Secretary to the president for Personnel Policy in the Korean government and has been a member of United Nations Committees of Experts on Public Administration(UN/CEPA) since 2006.
Htay Htay Lwin is Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Economics, and Director of the Master of Public Administration(MPA/EMPA) Programme at Yangon Institute of Economics, Yangon, Myanmar since 2007. She was also a Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Economics, and Director of the Master of Public Administration(MPA) Programme at Meikhtala Institute of Economics, Mandalay Division, Myanmar. She also served as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Economics, Meikhtila Institute of Economics, Mandalay Division, Myanmar from June 2001 to April 2003.
Eng Netra is currently a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Monash University, Australia. Her current research project examines the relationship between decentralization and accountability, and whether the reorganization of institutions enables changes of power relations of the Cambodian state. Prior to pursuing her doctorate research, she was a researcher at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) where she conducted and published several works on decentralization design, service delivery of local governments, accountability and leadership at village level, and human resource management. She was also a member of the consultant team assisting the Cambodian government to formulate the National Programme for Sub-National Demo- cratic Development for the next ten years.
Pairote Pathranarakul is Assistant Professor and Vice President for Administration of the National Institute of Development Administration(NIDA) in Bangkok, Thailand. He used to serve as Associate Dean for Planning and Development and Associate Dean for Administration at Graduate School of Public Administration(GSPA/NIDA). Holding an MPA(Hons) in Public Policy and Project Management, Graduate School of Public Administration, NIDA and a Ph.D. in Regional and Rural Development Planning, Asian Institute of Technology, he currently teaches graduate courses in public management and project planning and management courses at NIDA. He specializes in public sector management standard and project planning and evaluation. His research interest areas are public management, governance and reform, innovation management, and corporate crisis and risk management.
Eko Prasojo is a professor in the Department of Administrative Science in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. Most recently, he holds a position as the head of the Postgraduate Program of Administrative Science, Universitas Indonesia. He is a good governance and administration reform consultant for the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucracy Reform, through the aid project from Germany for Indonesia. In addition, he is a member of the Local Autonomy Advisory Board, who actively gives input and considerations to the president for any decentralization and local autonomy matter. His publications include: “State Reform in Indonesia,” “The Politics of Decentralization in Indonesia,” “Deregulation and Debureaucratization in Indonesia,” and “Local Government in Indonesia.”
Jon S. T Quah was Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore and co-editor of the Asian Journal of Political Science until his retirement in June 2007. He is now an anti-corruption consultant based in Singapore. He has published extensively on anti-corruption strategies and civil service reform in Asian countries, and public administration in Singapore. He is the author of Curbing Corruption in Asia: A Comparative Study of Six Countries(Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2003); Combating Corruption Singapore- Style(Baltimore: School of Law, University of Maryland, 2007); and Public Administration Singapore-Style(Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, April 2010).
Jose O. Tiu Sonco II is a Senior Lecturer at the National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines(UP-NCPAG) in Manila.
Khammoune Viphongxay is Vice Chairperson of the Public Administration and Civil Service Authority, in the Prime Minister’s Office, Lao PDR. He is a career civil servant, specialized in public administration. His recent areas of work include decentralization reforms, development of civil society and creation of local councils. Dr. Khammoune is on the faculty of the National Academy of Politics and Public Administration. He is a member of several key committees including State Committee for Organizational Improvement. He is also the Project Director for UNDP’s Governance and Civil Service Reform Project, as well as the Civil Society Project.
