Some competencies that expect to gain from studying at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy:
I. Professional Policymakers
Giving service of public having the character of routine to the society, all services to society have to be given by professional, and unbiased (neutral), sincerity and fully meekly to method, practice of policy and practice that have come to regulation. In taking policy may not affect by pressure of selected faction in one business area to obtain; get special treatment in the field of other. All inventions of target and policy must documented correctly and do not be altered for the private interest or groups. Report of society have to express pickings which either from invention and applying of this policy. Professional opinion that obtained has to accommodate to make the basis in applying a policy of professional public.
All transaction and activities have to be documented and accurately and all book notes supported by documentation which released by involver with professionalism. All policies have to obtain as according to policy and government law.
Conflicts of interests have to avoid such as corruption, collusion, and nepotism. A conflict of interest is a situation where importance’s of society digress or differ from our own private interests or importance of relationships or from people with there is in business contact or personal contact. These situations have to avoid by because they earn to influence decision or assessment of policymakers. Following is conflict of interest situation example, which must avoid:
A. Give service to public where societies have indirect or direct importance.
B. Practice on person from opportunity of business for society or use estate property of people resources or people for personal intentions.
C. Accept, directly or indirectly, type advantage of any person which given with reason work with government, including also presents, except audience invitation (hospitality) which earn to be accepted by social.
D. Take a importance in running duty, except for duty for the sake of public to a storey level which it is true do not give influence which isn't it or do not create depended the in advisableness and bow to reporting this importance.
E. Hold a position or occupation or kinds of position by execute service to a client or relationships besides from within execution of duties for people.
F. Accept a work or position/occupation outside especial duty as policymakers.
G. Conduct business with family with an organization where you or one of your close relative has partner to employ a family member.
Empowerment to society to reach progress in better life and carrying out development in the middle of society is the responsibilities of professional policymakers. Target that wish to reached is to improve efficiency and effectiveness co-ordinate planning and compilation of policy, and synchronization execution of policy, operation of management and observation of execution of policy. formulated by this strategic target hence can be made by a policymakers to improve prosperity of People and can precisely know what which must be executed by government to realize the mission and vision of brief during considered resource, fund, facilities and basic facilities. These strategic target formulas also to watch and measure as far as attainment of vision, mission, and organizational performance have reached. Target which wish to be reached in coordination is prosperity development and to solving of poorness as soon as is form of efficient and effective coordination in the plan and compilation of policy, and synchronization execution of policy, operation of management and observation of execution of policy. In target of substances that must reach in coordination policy of development of prosperity of people and to solving of poorness, that is downhill amount of impecunious residents of people and fulfilled by elementary rights of impecunious society systematically, with indicator as follows:
A. Reduction of impecunious resident and decrease social difference in society for had better prosperity.
B. Decreasing of it difference development of countryside and reduction of Lameness development of region.
C. The increasing of human being quality which is mirror from fulfilled elementary rights of people.
D. The recovery of environment quality and management of going concern natural resources and continuation of environment function to safe the nature and culture.
E. The increasing of infrastructure support posed at with improvement of quality and amount various medium supporter of development for the agenda of improving prosperity of people.
Strategic target of public policy is integral part in course of strategic plan and is strong base to control and watch attainment of organizational performance.
Farther this strategic target expected can guarantee the success of attainment of long-range performance which in character totally. Thereby, if entire specified target can reach, hence expected by related or relevant strategic target have also earned to reach. Hereinafter, at each target specified by activity substances to conducted to reach target.
II. Solving The Problem With Right Policy
Can identify the problem then find the best solution is the responsibility of the professional policymakers. As according to function and duty becoming responsibility of policymakers hence conducted efforts for example is to facility, giving opportunity and chance, partner, forming of working team, advocacy, enableness so that well-held various activity in realizing planning coordination and compilation of policy, and also synchronization execution. Execution of such policy coordination reckon various potency, opportunity, weakness, and existing challenge and estimated will emerge in management of activity. Hereinafter, plan the policy in it have to include; cover vision, mission, target, and way of attainment.
Development of area prosperity of people and solving of poorness have strategic role in development of state and nation, because touching direct at various effort for the accomplishment of elementary rights of resident. Therefore, policy the carried out is to coordinated planning and compilation of policy and the synchronization execution of operation and policy of to policies as following:
A. Policy of accomplishment of elementary rights, that is to reach targets:
1. Fulfilled sufficiency of certifiable food and reached;
2. Fulfilled service of certifiable health;
3. The available of service of education of certifiable base and flatten;
4. Opening of opportunity of job and chance for better prosperity;
5. Fulfilled requirement of housing, sanity and healthy;
6. Opening of peaceful and clean amount of water required for impecunious society;
7. Opening of accessing impecunious society in exploiting of natural resources and awaked of quality of environment;
8. Well guaranteed and protected individual rights and communal rights of land, house, and human rights.
9. Implementation of democracy with conduct well guaranteed of feel safe from acting hardness and the increasing of impecunious society participation in decision-making.
B. Policy of development of region to support accomplishment of elementary rights, that is:
1. Acceleration of development of countryside;
2. Revitalizes development of urban;
3. Development of coastal area;
4. Acceleration of development of area that drop behind;
In relation to policy direction, activity taken is strive to all, violating and harmonizing well-balancedly among development components in area so that effort management of development earn more directional at target and its development.
Various such development component is technical institution which execute development; while development target and the target is people, society or resident as a whole and other institution which at the same time as perpetrator of development. Therefore, as for harmonization of direction, target, and acceleration of development meant to synchronize of target and immediately can enjoy by wide of society is to represent essence of function and duty of policymakers.
Entirety of the policy direction is hereinafter formulated into a number of activities substance, and in each; every activity, substance have in perspective equality for the purpose of, characteristic and target according to related instances each area. Thereby, activity substances are further formulation in attainment of target and target giving contribution for attainment of vision and organizational mission.
This is some interests that expect to gain from studying at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, with competencies mentioned above as professional policymakers, hopefully can make right policy to the public and solving the problem without generating new problem.
