This article argues that bureaucracy plays politics in Indonesia, not only during the electoral periods, but also in public service. Using the case of environmental evaluation in local government, where natural resources comprise most of the local economy, this article discusses the politics of bureaucracy in undergoing daily governing processes. The environment and natural resource businesses are two opposing fields. Environmental evaluation becomes a contentious area and is usually highly political. This article identifies the bureaucracy’s politicisation in environmental evaluation as occuring in at least in two forms—in measurement and in project implementation. In terms of measurement, bureaucracy tends to use minimum standards, while in project implementation, there are some occasions where bureaucracy tends to sub-contract the work to the third party, usually NGOs, especially in relations to sensitive issues, so that it is politically safer for them, once the result is not as pleasing as expected. This article uses some cases in Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Central Java, and Bangka Belitung, and applied case study as research approach.

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地方政府环境评估的政治：评估印尼改革后的官僚主义

本文认为，官僚机构在印度尼西亚扮演政治角色，不仅在选举期间，而且在公共服务中。本文以地方政府的环境评估为例，其中自然资源占当地经济的大部分，本文讨论了官僚政治在日常管理过程中的作用。环境和自然资源业务是两个对立的领域。环境评估成为一个有争议的领域，通常具有高度的政治性。本文指出，官僚机构在环境评价中的政治化至少以两种形式出现——衡量和项目实施。在衡量方面，官僚主义倾向于使用最低标准，而在项目实施中，在某些情况下，官僚机构倾向于将工作分包给第三方，通常是非政府组织，尤其是在与敏感问题有关的方面，这样一旦结果不如预期的那么令人满意，在政治上对他们来说更安全。本文使用中加里曼丹、东加里曼丹、中爪哇和邦加勿里洞的一些案例，并应用案例研究作为研究方法。