Mental revolution in Indonesian bureaucratic reform
- Authors: Setiawan R.1,2, Kolesova O.V.2
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Affiliations:
- Bandar Lampung University
- Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
- Issue: Vol 12, No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 281-295
- Section: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2312-8313/article/view/317848
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8313-2025-12-2-281-295
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/QCXKZK
- ID: 317848
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Abstract
The study provides a description of the modern political discourse that problematizes the idea of “Mental revolution”. This concept highlights the idea of gaining sovereignty of development in the emerging multipolar world order. The authors understand mentality as a structure containing levels that imply constructive transformations. The course taken by Indonesia for the “Mental revolution” is analyzed in the article. The author substantiated the need for bureaucratic reform aimed at forming a new mentality and identified the criteria that contribute to the implementation of mental revolution in Indonesia. The study analyzes the socio-cultural characteristics of Indonesian society including the reasons for the formation of negative characteristics of mentality. The dominant role of bureaucracy in the state apparatus of Indonesia leads to pathological manifestations of bureaucratic dominance that are revealed in the article. The selected research methods are qualitative methods and methods of explanatory analysis using the approach of document and literature analysis. The analysis of the current bureaucratic model of governance in Indonesia revealed the main symptoms of negative functioning of bureaucratic structures. The authors highlighted the main characteristics that are necessary for the optimal functioning of the bureaucracy and the formation of a democratic culture in Indonesia. The authors presented concept of optimal governance. The positions of the “Mental revolution” are specified and the factors hindering its implementation are outlined, the goals of the “Mental revolution” in Indonesia are outlined. The authors conclude about the relevance of the concept of “Mental revolution” in the modern political context and the implementation of the idea in the context of Indonesian domestic policy.
About the authors
Refly Setiawan
Bandar Lampung University; Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Author for correspondence.
Email: setiawan1992@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0719-1287
Scopus Author ID: 59490926100
Master of Political Science, Lecturer at the Department of Public Administration, Bandar Lampung University; PhD Student at the Institute of International Relations and World History (IIRWH), Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
26 Zainal Abidin Pagar Alam st., Bandar Lampung, 35142, Indonesia; 23 Gagarin ave., Nizhny Novgorod, 603022, Russian FederationOlga V. Kolesova
Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Email: kolesovaov@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6274-2323
SPIN-code: 1594-0545
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Department of Socio-Political Communications, Institute of International Relations and World History
23 Gagarin ave., Nizhny Novgorod, 603022, Russian FederationReferences
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