Civil Servants’ Competence in Indonesia: Suggestions for Future Research in the Context of Business

Driven by the necessity for improving the quality of Indonesia's human resources and bureaucratic reform as laid out in the Master plan for Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia Economic Development (known as MP3EI), this article aims to highlight the importance understanding Indonesian civil servants’ competence, argued as a forgotten enabler for the success of business. As our selective literature review has shown, research on competence of the civil servants, published in major journals, has been scant. Our main expected contribution is to make readers aware of the essence of being engaged in the issue of civil servants’ competence and offer several potential research directions that researchers may want to pursue.