As one of the scientific disciplines, Public Administration plays a role in regulating, directing and accelerating social change, in accordance with community expectations. In realizing this, Public Administration carries out its function as an executor and at the same time directs it, so that all activities, including those carried out by the community, are focused on the main goal of the desired social change. To carry out activities that bring changes in values, Public Administration has a position to maintain and strengthen common life. Meanwhile, in public sector management, Good Governance is seen as a reference that must be built by the bureaucracy of an agency or institution in order to carry out the functions of public management properly. Good Governance also plays an important role in carrying out its principles during the current Covid-19 pandemic.

“In general, the meaning of Good Governance is the implementation of a clean, good and authoritative government. Good Governance can be achieved if there is synergy between the Government Bureaucracy, Civil Society. Such as NGOs, Community Leaders, Religious Leaders and others as well as the Private Sector, Mass Media and Universities. If we relate it to Public Management, especially regarding Public Services, it is how the Good Governance actors themselves are involved in formulating, implementing and evaluating policies, including policies during the pandemic. Without the synergy of these actors, it will not work optimally with a policy carried out by the Government,” said Dra. Dyah Hariani, MM, Lecturer of Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro.

She conveyed that in order to carry out the public management function run effectively, what the government must do is to identify the needs of the community during the pandemic, prepare careful planning and then carry it out, and this implementation is supported by the community, business actors, universities, and mass media policies. Government programs during the pandemic were quite a lot, here the role of Good Governance Actors was required. This was expected to be able to change the public’s (society) perspective on any change, for example by conveying (socialization) in the right way. So that, people would not be affected by fake news, hoaxes and so on.

“Talking about management, basically (it is about) how to manage an organization in achieving its goals efficiently and effectively through management functions, namely the management function, in brief, is POAC or Planning, Organizing, Actuating, Controlling. Although there are other functions besides POAC, such as Budgeting, Leading, Communicating, Innovating, and Representing where these functions are carried out by the Organizational Leader. Public management itself is related to Public Service Management. This is due to the increasingly complex problems and the needs of the community for goods and services that require faster, better, and more certain services which are reflected in the indicators of Public Service Quality, namely tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy,” she continued.

As a lecturer in Public Management, Public Policy and Public Finance, she said that studying public administration was fun. We would learn managerial, do analysis, think strategically, communicate, manage organizations and even learn numbers or mathematics. In the Department of Public Administration, there were two concentrations, Public Policy and Public Management (2017 curriculum). Public Management Concentration courses (2017 curriculum) including Public Service Management, Organizational Analysis, Public Organizational Communication, State Finance, Public Sector Resource Management. For the 2020 curriculum, courses related to Public Management were still available and were free to be taken by all students.

She hoped that Undip’s progress towards a World Class University, according to her, the support of all Undip Academics, by implementing the Tri Dharma of Higher Education for each role of the Academic Community, such as lecturers, employees, students and good management from the University Leadership, would strongly encourage Undip towards the WCU. “WCU will bring change to Undip itself, Undip is able to compete with the world campuses while producing graduates who are able to compete with graduates of the world-class universities which are very much needed in the era of globalization. Undip as a World Class University can bring cooperation at the national and international levels, either from universities, the business world, other institutions or research collaborations, business collaborations, student exchanges, internships and so on,” she concluded. (Linda Public Relations)

Source: undip.ac.id