Indonesia - Survey of Public Servants 2012

The Bureaucratic Reform (BR), introduced by the government of Indonesia in 2006, is a comprehensive initiative which touches upon the refinement of the many dimensions of the way government ministries/agencies (M/A) run, among others the existing remuneration system. To encourage the reform, M/A can receive BR allowance in the form of a stipend for the employees should their proposal to implement BR has been approved. The Pay for Performance (PfP) project was initiated by The Research Group of the World Bank Development Economics Group (DECRG). Interested in evaluating the effects of the Bureaucratic Reform (BR) allowances on the performance, efficiency and morale of public servants in Indonesia, DECRG intended to collect data on the above through perspective-based survey done by the public servants. The PfP project collected data from 3,903 public servants sampled from selected Ministry/Agency (M/A) in different states of BR allowance approvals. The respondents were to come from three employee ranks (III-A, III-D and IV-A). 15 government institutions were selected and grouped into four BR groups: M/A that have received BR allowance (“Received”); M/A that have been approved to receive BR allowance (“Pipeline”); M/A that have just applied for BR allowance (“Applied”); and M/A that have not applied for BR allowance (“Not Applied”). Four surveys types were developed by DECRG to administer: Control, TCP, TDP and TRP.