It should be recognized that in the past, bureaucracy’s role tend too big and monopolize almost all aspects of society’s life. Over the time, this paradigm has changed. Bureaucracy can not only a single player to maintaining all of public interests. This is caused by the limitations of bureaucracy itself. These limitations are :
a. Limitation of human resource in bureaucracy.
This point seemed to find its meaning in Indonesian context. Capability of bureaucracy personnel often questioned if we saw the policy products.
We certainly agree that public policy should be able to anticipate potential of problems so that’s why it is very important to giving attention for the quality of policy product.
b. Limitation of institutional
Division of works in the bureaucracy often make overlapping authority between agencies, especially if in the fat bureaucratic structure, it could made unefficient in work because the step that must done became another agency working area. Coordination effort, should be recognized, easy to say but difficult to do.
c. Limitation of budget
With many public interest that must handled by bureaucracy, there is a demand to giving same attention to all working sector. We know it is an utopian. Like or dislike, bureaucracy must make a priority for their working program in a fiscal year. Consequently, the budget may indeed be less than optimal to fullfill public needs. This can be compounded by the leakage rate of budget, if it high enough.
d. Limitation of time
Bureaucracy often forced to finish all of their working program in one fiscal year. Well, it have to admit that one fiscal year doesn’t enough to finish all of public policy matter and not every issue is allowed to convert in multi years program.
