Syamsul Alam

Digital Governance and the Equity Paradox: Evidence From Indonesia's Local Integrated Planning System

ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between digital governance and social equity through the equity paradox. Drawing on a qualitative case study of Indonesia's nationally mandated Sistem Informasi Pemerintahan Daerah (SIPD) in Konawe Regency, it examines how procedural...

Functionalization Without Instruments: How Local Bureaucrats Make Sense of Unfinished Reform While Managing Public Services

This study examines how bureaucrats enact functionalization reform under conditions of unfinished reform, conceptualized as instrumental incompleteness in which structural change outpaces the development of operational HR infrastructures. Drawing on a comparative qualitative case...