Government and Politics

Today’s public affairs practitioner must possess a solid mix of communication skills linked to a comprehensive understanding of the organization’s culture, policies, practices, and constituents. The public affairs officer is an integral member of the ... management team.

• Organization’s supervisor

• Organization’s communication

• Organization’s executive

• Organization’s top

The terms used interchangeably with Government Public Relations are ...

• Government Relations

• External Relations

• Public Affairs Officer

• Information Relations

The public affairs practitioner seeks to provide the targeted publics with the most up-to-date and accurate information available. Thus, the primary job of government public affairs practitioners is ...

Facing the Covid-19 pandemic, the Indonesia government has implemented numerous policies to preserve the life (health) of the population including enforcing border controls, strict health protocols, expanded testing, quarantine, and treatment capacity, and provided the population with access to vaccines. The government affairs practitioners have to ensure that Indonesian people do not only get informed but also ...

• Expect more from all levels of government.

• Appear and be fueled by simplistic rhetoric in

  place of a deeper understanding of issues.

• Work together with the government to succeed the programs.

• Remind Indonesians about the importance of getting Covid-19 vaccine.

James L. Garnett argued that communicating in government tends to be more important and often more difficult than communicating in business. One of reasons stated by Garnett is that ...

The government public affairs practitioner believes; (1) that a democratic government must report its activities to the citizens and (2) that effective government administration requires active citizen participation and support. Hence, one of the goals for government public affairs is ...

In March 2, 2020, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has announced that two Indonesians have tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the first two confirmed cases of the disease in the country. He said the government was well-prepared to handle COVID-19 cases. Prior to this announcement, Indonesia had no confirmed cases of COVID-19, raising concerns about the country’s detection ability. It illustrates how the public affairs practitioner straddles the need for communicating ... and the need to communicate ... , conflicting as they may be, back to the organization.

• The official's credibility.

• The organization’s agenda.

• The public’s desires.

• The government's regulation.

Serving as the public's advocate, the government public affairs officers need to perform their traditional public information role, namely, disseminated objective information about their agency ( ... ), and, to a lesser extent, used research to develop a basis for advising officials about the need to make changes internally ( ... ).

• Government relations model; two-way communication model.

• Public information model; asymmetrical model.

• Public information model; two-way symmetrical model.

• Public information model; two-way communication model.

All stakeholders believe that implementing e government (SPBE) will be key to efficient, high-quality, transparent, and accountable  public services by making use of efficiently integrated data from both central and  regional governments. The belief was affirmed at the second day of the Satu Data Indonesia WebSummit on e-government for national economic recovery held virtually on July, 11 2021. It is going hand in hand with the purpose of government public affairs of encouraging public ... to administration officials.

Democratic traditions require that a nation’s governmental agencies be accessible to the news media; hence, ... is a fundamental function of public affairs officers.

• Media relations

• Media hotlines

• Media releases

• Media interest