Post-Colonial Indonesia

This study investigates historical and political factors that have contributed to the development of Corruption, Collusion and Nepotism (CC&N) within Indonesian public sector institutions focusing on the Local/Provincial (L/P) Government of West Kalimantan. In particular, it argues that insufficiently developed institutions inherited from colonialism, and influenced by intensive and extensive incoming flows of foreign aid, have aggravated CC&N within the Indonesian public sector. Drawing on an institutional approach, this study utilises underdevelopment theory and critiques of modernisation to guide the analysis and discussion in this thesis. It also reviews relevant theories of public administration focusing on Weber's (1968) patrimonial bureaucracy and Theobald's (1990) study of CC&N and public sector institutions in developing countries. Issues of democratisation and globalisation are briefly addressed in order to complete the theoretical context.

Autorentext

Adang Budiman, staff of human resource development board at theProvincial Government of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. He has anacademic background in public administration which he obtainedfrom Government Academy of Internal Affairs (APDN) Pontianak in1990. He completed his PhD from The University OfQueensland,Australia in 2008.