Membangun Sumber Daya Manusia dalam Pelaksanaan Pengkajian Kebijakan Agraria, Tata Ruang dan Pertanahan

ABSTRACT Developing the role of research in agrarian, spatial planning, and land policies requires qualified human resources in their fields. HR Researcher and Policy Analyst (HR P and AK) as the “pioneer” in providing recommendations for policy development by the Center for Development and Standardization of Agrarian, Spatial, and Land Policy (PPSK-ATP) at the the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (Ministry of ATR/BPN). However, the recommendations could not be able to be carried out efficiently due to the limitations of human resources. The purpose of this study is to describe the importance of human resource availability as a researcher to carry out the task of research and analysis to formulate the suitable policy for the Ministry of ATR/BPN. The methode was conducted to investigate existing documents related to the existence of PPSK-ATP in carrying out their duties and activities as a work unit that develops and evaluates agrarian, spatial planning, and land policies. The findings of this study show that PPSK-ATP has to take various initiatives to strengthen the role of evaluation in policy making, including: conduct out the hiring process in accordance with the required credentials, focused on capacity building in accordance with their fields, establish an environment that is conducive to learning. Keywords: Research, Human Resources, Policy ABSTRAK Peningkatan peranan pengkajian dalam kebijakan agraria, tata ruang dan pertanahan membutuhkan sumber daya manusia yang unggul di bidang pengkajian. SDM Peneliti dan Analis Kebijakan (SDM P dan AK) adalah “ujung-tombak” pada Pusat pengembangan dan Standarisasi Kebijakan Agraria, Tata Ruang dan Pertanahan (PPSK-ATP) dalam menyusun rekomendasi perumusan kebijakan Kementerian Agraria dan Tata Ruang/Badan Pertanahan Nasional. Namun, hal itu belum dapat diperankan dengan efektif mengingat berbagai keterbatasan yang melekat di dalamnya, seperti sumber daya manusia yang masih sangat terbatas. Tulisan ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan urgensi ketersediaan SDM Pengkajian untuk dapat mengemban tugas pengkajian (penelitian dan kajian) yang berkualitas dalam menghasilkan rekomendasi kebijakan yang efektif di Kementerian ATR/BPN. Metode dilakukan dengan menganalisis dokumen yang pernah ada berkaitan dengan eksistensi PPSK-ATP dalam melaksanakan tugas dan fungsinya sebagai unit kerja yang melakukan pengembangan dan pengkajian kebijakan agraria, tata ruang, dan pertanahan. Hasil telaah menunjukkan bahwa terdapat beberapa langkah yang perlu dilakukan PPSK-ATP untuk meningkatkan peran pengkajian dalam perumusan kebijakan yaitu rekruitmen yang serius, peningkatan kapasitas yang fokus, dan menciptakan atmosfir pengkajian yang kondusif. Kata kunci: Pengkajian, Sumber Daya Manusia, Kebijakan

Flood, Livelihood Displacement, and Poverty in Nigeria: Plights of Flood Victims, 2012–2018

The impacts of flood on the Nigerian population over the years have been enormous. This is because the attendant associated risks such as destruction of lives and properties, livelihood displacement, and impoverishment of victims arising from increasing flood cases have constituted a threat to the citizens’ survival and therefore inform the attention the menace has drawn among scholars, policy analyst. This chapter has as its primary aim, a critical assessment of the impacts of government responses over the plight of victims of flooding in Nigeria over the years under review. Thus, special attention is given in this chapter to the various barriers or challenges facing government response to the plight of flood victims in Nigeria. Finally, some valuable steps, which if taken will reduce these barriers or challenges, are outlined. Though, the study adopted the use of secondary sources of data collection via content analysis, the experiences and knowledge gathered in this chapter will be strategically useful to people and organizations interested in the government of Nigeria’s response to the plight of flood victims, barriers inhibiting the success of fund utilization in reducing the suffering and impoverishment of the flood victims, number of deaths, and population displaced as a result.

Bureaucratic Reform in Indonesia: Policy Analyst Experiences

In recent years, Indonesia has introduced reforms to its bureaucracy in response to critiques of the quality of government policy design and delivery. The Grand Design of Bureaucratic Reform strategy seeks to reduce the number of civil servants employed in administrative or managerial positions (structural appointments) in favour of skills-based recruitment into ‘functional’ positions. Specifically, the introduction of the ‘policy analyst’ position as a functional position in the civil service has sought to improve evidence-based policy making and the quality of policy outcomes, by incorporating merit-based recruitment, appointment and promotion. The role of functional policy analysts (Jabatan Fungsional Analis Kebijakan or JFAKs) is to assist policy makers in identifying policy issues, analyse evidence available on these issues, and ultimately make policy recommendations. This report overviews the recent experiences of different policy analyst cohorts since the role’s creation in 2015. It investigates these experiences to better understand the extent to which policy analysts are playing the role intended for them, and the factors enabling or inhibiting this.

The Music Educator as a Policy Analyst

This chapter is the most practical and instructive of the book’s chapters. It aims to delineate very concrete ways of looking at accepted tools, spaces, and practices in policy. The chapter presents music educators with an entry point to this policy vocabulary. The chapter admonishes the reader that these are only tools, however, and as such their yield is dependent on our capacity to discern, contextualize, and frame. While the chapter describes policy language, instruments, and tools, it avoids the misperception that technical acuity is a necessary first step, one that allows one to enter the realm of policy. Such a view inevitably delays policy participation and discourages policy thinking. Knowing the context is the only prerequisite for policy engagement.

REFLECTIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A STATE POLICY MAKER

From her perspective as Director of Systems Transformation, Minnesota Department of Human Services, and her role as planner and policy analyst in state agencies, this presentation briefly comment on the implications of the findings. Using thepory of disruptive innvoation, she will suggest next steps for these results.

Subjective Probability and International Politics

This chapter explores the theoretical foundations of assessing uncertainty in international politics. It begins by explaining that virtually all important assessments of uncertainty in international politics are inherently subjective. The chapter’s second section explains how it is possible to believe that these subjective judgments are meaningless, but that this argument carries logical implications that no foreign policy analyst could accept. The chapter’s third section demonstrates that, conditional on believing that assessments of subjective probability contain any meaningful insight, it is always possible to express that insight in clear and structured ways, including through the use of numeric percentages. The chapter shows how its theoretical framework can help to resolve difficult analytic problems, focusing in particular on debates among U.S. intelligence analysts about the chances that Osama bin Laden was living in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in the spring of 2011.

The evolution of the policy analysis profession in the United States

Despite the growth of the field in the United States over the past several decades, this is not a profession that the general public understands. Indeed, as time has gone by since the profession developed, there sometimes appears to be less agreement about the activity than there was in its earliest days. For the answer to the question ‘What is a policy analyst?’ is different today than it was in the 1960s, when the profession first defined itself. One can depict the realities of the policy analysis profession as occurring during three periods: 1960 to 1989, 1990 to 2003; and 2003 to the present. Using three points of time to frame this contrast does provide a way to emphasize the shifts that have occurred in the profession.