Public Governance

The Report Nobody Reads

24 August 2026

An institution can publish hundreds of pages of reports every year and still be seen as closed. The problem isn't the page count.

Consultations That Were Decided in Advance

18 August 2026

A forum that only rubber-stamps decisions already made slowly loses its participants — and its purpose.

Rethinking the Weekly Meeting

11 August 2026

Routine meetings often survive not because they are useful, but because nobody dares to stop them. There is a way to test which ones are worth keeping.

Choosing Indicators That Don't Fool You

8 July 2026

An indicator chosen because it is easy to count will change the work so that it is easy to count. That is no accident.

Two Words That Save a Meeting: Who, When

18 June 2026

An agreement without a name and a deadline isn't an agreement. It's only a shared intention.

Local Budget Transparency and Public Trust: A Study of Three Mid-Sized Cities

Laras Anindita, Bagas Prasetyo, Nadia Kusuma

Nusantara Journal of Public Administration · Vol. 9, No. 2 · pp. 141-158 · 2026

Publishing budget documents is often treated as an administrative duty. This study tests its link with public trust in three mid-sized cities, and finds that trust is driven not by how many documents are uploaded, but by how easily ordinary people can read them.

When Performance Indicators Measure the Wrong Thing: A Review of Local Planning Documents

Laras Anindita

Journal of Policy and Governance · Vol. 4, No. 3 · pp. 201-219 · 2022

A review of 48 local planning documents finds a recurring pattern: indicators that are easy to count displace the goals they were meant to serve. This article proposes a simple test to separate indicators that measure outcomes from those that merely measure activity.