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.
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Journal of Applied Regional Economics · Vol. 6, No. 1 · pp. 23-40 · 2024
One-stop licensing cuts the number of desks a business has to visit, but it does not automatically cut the cost of compliance. This research separates official fees from the cost of time, and shows that for micro businesses the biggest expense is an unpredictable schedule.
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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.
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Proceedings of the Nusantara Conference on Digital Governance · pp. 77-89 · 2021
One Data programs rest on the assumption that the people collecting data understand what they collect. Fieldwork in 12 villages shows that this assumption is rarely tested, and traces its effect on the quality of the data that reaches the district level.
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