New Governance

Presentation by Mr. Cornelis Lay
The Gadjah Mada University – Yokyakarta

The magic words on ‘New Governance’ according to Mr. Cornelis are: Minimalistic State, Corporate Governance, New Public Management, Good Governance, Socio-Cybernetic systems and Self-organizing networks. For further details, please find the link for the presentation below as it is very well presented.

Following the presentation, further discussions were raised by the participant concerning the practicality of the theories in the current Asian environment as well as Asian values and cultures.

How do we balance the western values and Asian values in order that we preserve the rights of the local minorities as well as preserving the heritage and cultures? To be discussed in the remainder of the workshop as we are out of time for the session…

Stay tune!
You can download the presentation here: (New Governance – Cornelis Lay )

And so we begin!

The YLDA workshop entitled ‘Engaging Citizens for Responsible and Effective Governance” formally begins in Jakarta!

A welcoming dinner was held last night (21/11/07), Mr. Sandun Gamage, member of YLDA executive committee delivered a warm welcoming speech as well as our local host from Garda Bangsa, Ms. Camelia Puji Astuti. A brief wise words from Mr. Rainer Haeufers, Project Director of FNF Indonesia on what is being considered good governance in Europe, especially from the view point of the FNF. A man of few words but was just enough to already started our thought process and ready us to tackle the topics for the next few days here in Jakarta. Following the dinner, the participants were given to opportunity to listen to inspiring speech by visiting member of parliament from PKB and YLDA alumni, Mr. H. Faishal Zaini. (We would also like to thank Eko for the translation of Mr. Zaini’s speech.)

Today, we started the day (by no means we used German Time for punctuality, but rather converted to the norms of Asian time) by leveling off activities. Everyone were given the chance to introduce his/her partner on the personal and professional information and their individual expectation of the workshops, a methods used by 99% of FNF events. Rules and regulations were set cleared by our co-moderator, Pey Canlas. (Again, we can’t drink the mini-bar! Thanks Pey!)

The tone of the workshop was set by contribution from Mr. Cornelis Lay of The Gadjah Mada University. Mr. Cornelis introduce to the participant both the technical and practical points on governance and new public management. Morning session was concluded at 12.30 and the participants break for lunch.

Following the lunch break, the plenary is divided into 3 groups for role playing. The three groups are: member of the civil society, members of the political parties, and members of the state. Participants were given thirty minutes to have group discussions to formalize their stances and their newly found role. Each group is a good mixture of participants from different background as well as country of origin. Following the discussion, each group presented their definition of their respective group and set their own role in the society. Members of each group are asked to stick to their ‘role’ for the remainder of the workshop and base their actions, contributions and questions based on the agreed role. (Could be quite frustrating for some politicians sitting in the civil society group!)