Public Servant Competency Development of National Capital (IKN) Buffer Regions as a Policy Approach in Indonesia

Abstract

Civil Servant (ASN) competency development in the buffer zone/partner regions of the Capital City of the Archipelago (IKN) has a high level of urgency to be immediately fulfilled so that the role of support for IKN can run optimally on the one hand and increase regional competitiveness on the other. From the results of data collection in the field (questionnaire distribution and in-depth-interview) as well as secondary data analysis on local governments directly adjacent to IKN, namely the Government of Balikpapan City, Samarinda City, Penajam Paser Utara Regency (PPU) and Kutai Kartanegara Regency (Kukar). There are several causes of problems related to ASN competency development in the IKN buffer/partner areas, namely 1) the lack of budget owned by the local government to meet competency development needs, 2) incompatibility of formal educational background with ASN positions, and 3) commitment of regional leaders who have not made competency development as one of the regional strategic programs. The general similarity of competency development models that are often practiced by all IKN buffer/partner regions are learning assignments in the education channel, training, technical guidance and seminars through classical competency development channels, webinar models for non-classical competency development, Community of Practice (CoP), and competency development through Benchmarking. From the review of the context of existing policy issues, there are four strategies to strengthen the competency development policy of ASN in IKN partner areas, namely (1) expansion of a more varied and low-cost competency development model; (2) prioritization of competency development policies for ASN in IKN partner areas; (3) completing the competency development planning documents of ASN in IKN partner areas; and (4) involvement of ministries / agencies for competency transfer in affirmative program for competency development of ASN in IKN partner areas.

Keywords: buffer zone, capital city, public servant, competency development

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/15-18-07

Publication date: November 30^th 2023