Democratic Relation of Local Bureaucracy, Public Participation, and Sampean Watershed Forum in Public Service Performance

Abstract

This paper is intended to describe that the idea of democratic public administration in the policy of Sampean watershed integrated management in flood mitigation in Sampeyan watershed area can be related to the trust and closeness indicators between local bureaucracy, public participation and Sampean watershed forum through social capital functionalization.The uniquenesses of this paper are:  first, this is a critical review of the concept of new public service paradigm, and social capital theories in the study of democratic relations of public service performance. Second, this research expands the indicators of public service performance, so this measures not only the achievement of organization internal programs and activities but also externally uses indicators of service quality to citizens.The paper finding are as follows; first, local bureaucracy, public participation, Sampean watershed forum provided a significant effect on the disparity of democratic relationships of public service policy performance. Second, there was a tendency that the social capital (values of trust and closeness) could increase the quality of democratic relationship between local bureaucracy, public participation and Sampean watershed forum.

Keywords:social capital, democratic relationship, local bureaucracy, public participation, public service performance.