The Form of Bureaucracy Reformation Under the Strong Regional Head in Indonesia Andi Rusli 1 , Sukri 2 , Ashar Prawitno 3 {andirusli2707@gmail.com 1 , sukripolitik@gmail.com 2 , asharprawitno@gmail.com 3 } Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Hasanuddin University Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan Km. 10, Makassar, Indonesia 1,2,3 Abstract. Bureaucracy is an important figure in an institutional work system in both business and government organizations. In the context of government, bureaucracy is an institution that is the executor of all government policies as a reflection of the power of the head of government. Thus it is necessary to ensure that the bureaucracy remains professional. However, the phenomenon of the northern Mamuju district shows that the existence of a strong local figure as the head of the region will affect the figure of the bureaucracy. Although the effort to make the bureaucracy a neutral institution serving the people, but it seems to have to deal with the tendency of the bureaucracy to be part of an effort to maintain the power of regional authorities. In the end, the bureaucratic reform effort is faced with a dilemmatic condition for the bureaucracy. In one hand, bureacracy reform objectives is to create more profesional bureaucracy that netral form political interest of particular actors, but on the ither hands it also should obey their leader as part of the regional government staf. Keywords: Mamuju Tengah, Bureaucracy Reform, Profesional, Strong Regional Head 1 Introduction Bureaucratic system under the weberian perspective. This thinking places the bureaucracy as a professional figure that regardless of influence of the political power of its rulers. Through bureaucracy, it is expected that the bureaucracy could carried out its public services maximal and professionally. This is important due to bureaucracy is a solid structural system which is providing public services on various aspects of people's lives as part government institution. It puts the bureaucracy as a important structure to support the dynamics of people's lives and their development. However, in some cases, it is often where bureaucratic reform efforts does not success as it expected. It is usually related to various things. The existence of regulations in the regional context, leadership and the carrying capacity of the system are usually as things that influence the efforts for bureaucratic reform in various government level. If there are parts that do not provide maximum support the effort potentially will fail. In the context of regional government, one important aspect that important for the bureaucracy reform effort is the regional leader. Based on this picture, this paper aims to analyze several factors that influence efforts of bureaucratic reform. Based on the field research was in the Central Mamuju Regency (Kabupaten Mamuju Tengah), West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. This regency is one of the interesting areas to analyse the bureaucratic reform related to its context of the strong leadership tendency. This aspect indicate a unique condition due to the regional head with his strong political and formal authority that basically tends to produce a binary position of the reform HICOSPOS 2019, October 21-22, Makassar, Indonesia Copyright © 2020 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.21-10-2019.2291525