Quo Vadis Administrative Discretion

The trend happening in the era of this autonomy is that replacement of structural officials always follows any change of both the Governor and the Regional Head of Regents and Mayors through rolling mechanism. Officials who are considered not to support in local elections or deemed to have no supporter will be stopped from their structural positions. While the officials who serve as team success in the local elections will be appointed as structural officials although they do not meet the requirements both in terms of rank, seniority, professionalism, experience and competence in any position.This study aimed at analyzing and explaining the effectiveness of administrative discretion in the appointment of personnel to structural positions. This research used qualitative descriptive research with a phenomenological approach. The results showed that the mayor administrative discretion is effective in interfering recommendation of Baperjakat or Board of Advisory Position and Rank on the recruitment process of personnel in structural position in order to get the structural officials who are not competent in the structural position they occupied in the City of Tomohon. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n1s1p2