Monday, July 8, 2013

Preventing the Wrong Public Policy

@The Jakarta Post

One of the government’s main tasks is to develop and implement policy. Problems occur, the goals are set and the government has to tackle and achieve them through policy.

The ordinary route is: Decision makers collect and crunch data surrounding the problems and goals, analysis is carried out and the result is a policy. Some policies eradicate a problem or achieve the goal, but some do not. Worse, failed policies frequently weigh on the budget.