Talk about Interest

I have always been interested in public administration and public policy, because it has power to create idea for solving problems and can be instrument to change people’s behavior in institutional system. At 6th semester, I applied for an internship at Skha Consulting. I’m interested for a project that offer for internship about “Development Strategy of National Social Security System” and “Working Procedure of Local Government”. And Finally, through the interview test I was accepted to work at there in “Development Strategy of National Social Security System” Project and “Study of Formation Holding Company in Bandung” . In this experience I would like to share what I learned about 3-4 months there.

Skha Consulting is management consulting who have projects from local government to making the idea for solving problems in Bandung with many projects related. In Skha Consulting we have to think different to make solutions that make things right in addition to make Bandung as World Class City. We have to make strategy to decreasing the gap between existing Bandung with the goal for Bandung as World Class City. In my project, SJSN (National Social Security System) has been known will be implemented on January 2014 and will form new mechanism related social security that impact people in Indonesia, without exception Bandung. Therefore we formed a strategy to anticipate these things so that National Social Security System can work well in Bandung.

We did brainstorming and discussing about how can we develop the strategy of national security system in Bandung. There are five steps in this activity: preparation, regulatory review, data collecting, data analysis, and making recommendations.In this study, we have to discuss with other people that related to social security system. We have to present the result to the local government in Bandung and output in this study is formal document that will be implemented. But, because of the government bureaucracy in Bandung, Skha Consulting can’t continue the national social security system project. In the auction process, Skha Consulting fail to get the project. Because of that, I learned that to do something that we think is right is not easy as we planned. We have to face the truth about the system in the world especially institutional system can change people’s behavior.

Through this experience, I know that changing a system that is not easy like turning hand. To change the behavior, we need to know what steps should be done in changing the value systems that exist in humans. If it is difficult to change the value system in a short time, then we can change the system through a technical rational approach that can be accepted by the public. To change the system we can perform technical interventions to ultimately give an impact to change the value system. The big change started from changing small things, like people are saying “a big step starts from a small step”.