Failure of Bottom-Up Implementation: A Case Study the Improving Welfare Program in West Java

Teten Ali Mulku Engkun, Kartini Aboo Talib Khalid

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Policy implementation is one of the stages in public policy process. This process often faces diverse issues and challenges. This paper aims to analyse models of policy implementation in a governance system in Indonesia. The Indonesian government introduced top-down policy implementation system for more than three decades. The fundamental policy implementation changes in Indonesia following the fall of the new order regime, Indonesia introduced a bottom-up policy implementation system. The bottom-up approach often faces diverse issues and challenges. The failure of implementation in the improving welfare program in West Java Provincial triggers researcher’s intention to investigate it. Thus, this paper examines the bottom-up model in two different levels of autonomy such as province (provinsi), regencies and municipalities (Kabupaten and Kota) in West Java. This research utilizes applies the intensive interviews technique to gather perspectives from many informants purposively including civil servant, former government officio, NGOs, target groups, and individuals. The qualitative analysis applies the integrated analysis to display the informants’ opinions by integrating their voices in the arguments and discussions. The significant contribution of this paper composes of two emphases such as first, the paper explicates the bottom-up model integration is unfit to be applied in the improving welfare program in West Java. Second an efficient implementation must have remained governed by policy makers, because it will lead to abuse of authority.

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Policy Implementation, Bottom-up Model

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