Performance Accountability of Government Institution (Study in Education Agency in East Kalimantan Province)

Abstract

Accountability is one of the major components in developing good governance or more widely known as “good governance”. The demand to establish good governance becomes one of important issue in Indonesia since several years ago, starting by financial crisis in 1997-1998, which triggering multi dimensional crisis. The crisis then generates a push back in form of demanding improvement or reformation on state administration including state bureaucracy. One of the causal factor of multi dimensional crisis which we experienced of is bad or merely wrong management on the governance (poor governance), which indicated by several problems, such as: (1) power domination of one party to others, so that the supervisory control became difficult to establish; (2) corruption, collusion and nepotism become common practice; (3) low performance of state apparature including in giving public service to the public or people in all sectors. Accountability is a form of Government Institution obligation in giving responsibility, explain the success and failure of an agency in executing their main task and function to their superior and other stakeholders in form of a document named Laporan Akuntabilitas Kinerja Instansi Pemerintah/Performance Accountability Report of Government Institution (LAKIP), which described strategic management consist of Renstra (Strategic Planning), Renja (Work Planning), Measurement, Assessing and Evaluation and also Performance Report.

Keyword: Accountability, performance