Innovation of Local Governance in Educational Affairs in Kupang City Province East Nusa Tenggara

The novelty of this research in: 1) public sector organization as research target; 2) research locus in the city of autonomous region which has the authority to regulate and administer the organization of education; 3) the innovation study in integrated regional government bureaucracy starting at the "executive" policy level, organizational managerial level, and innovation at the operational level. The objectives of the research are: a) process of development of program of the innovations of local government in education, b) kind of innovation program of local government in education, c) capacity of innovation of local government in education, and d) building the empirical model and recommended model of local government innovation in education. Researchers use the theory of innovation in the sector of the public which was developed by Mulgan & Albury (2003) and Muluk (2008). In the study of innovation of public sector known there are five types, namely: a) the innovation of service product, b) innovation of service process, c) innovation of method of service, d) innovation of policy, and e) innovation of system. The results of the research are: 1) the process of the development of program of innovation in education through a process of politic (function of setting) and a process of the arrangement (the managerial) that had already been innovative; 2) the types of innovation program include Program Sanggar Pendidikan Anak/PSPA (Children Education Studio Program), Program Pendidikan Gratis/PPG (Free Education Program), Program Inovasi Metode Pembelajaran/PIMP (Learning Method Innovation Program), and Program Satuan Tugas Pendidikan/PSTP (Educational Task Force Program). The four programs of innovation are the kind of innovation of service process, incremental and top down, adopted through replication (clone) as a result of comparative study; 3) there are four elements of innovation capacity that are studied, namely, the innovative leadership of the mayor, implementing apparatus, budget, government network and program regulation. Keywords: innovation, development, type, capacity, model, education DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-5-02 Publication date: February 29th 202