* Corresponding Author Email : ratisumanti@gmail.com © 2021 Pusat Pelatihan dan Pengembangan dan Kajian Desentralisasi dan Otonomi Daerah (Puslatbang KDOD), Lembaga Administrasi Negara, Indonesia. Jurnal Borneo Administrator Volume 17 (3) 2021: 351-364 P-ISSN: 1858-0300, E-ISSN: 2407-6767 DOI: 10.24258/jba.jba.v17i3.898 Accredited by Kemenristek/BRIN No. 148/M/KPT/2020 ARTICLE Strategic Aspects of Professional Position Development: Implications for Adjustment from Administrative to Professional Positions in Indonesia Rati Sumanti*, Ervina Yunita, and Henri Prianto Sinurat Puslatbang KHAN, Jl. Dr. Mr. Muhammad Hasan, Lamcot, Aceh Besar, Indonesia How to cite: Sumanti, Rati., Yunita, Ervina and Sinurat, Henri Prianto. (2021). Strategic Aspects of Professional Position Development: Implications for Adjustment from Administrative to Professional Positions in Indonesia. Jurnal Borneo Administrator, 17 (3), 351-364. https://doi.org/10.24258/jba.v17i3.898 Article History Received: 17 May 2021 Accepted: 22 December 2021 Keywords: Flattening Bureaucracy, Professional Position, Development of Position ABSTRACT The mandate of government policy is to flatten bureaucracy structure through transferring administrative positions to professional ones. Such policy has caused many issues. Thus, it is necessary to develop professional positions. This research analyses three strategic aspects of professional position development that include legal, technical, and welfare aspects using a systematic literature review method. It shows that the legal aspect requires certain policies to accelerate the implementation of flat bureaucracy and problem-solving in organizational structure as well as in personnel management. The government's commitment is required by the planning system related to the development of professional positions both at the central and regional levels. In the technical aspect, the analysis shows competency development become mandatory for agencies to solve the competency gap between administrative positions and professional positions. Then on the welfare aspect, there is an income gap between administrative positions and several professional positions. The government has to make a regulation about allowance to resolve the income gap. A. INTRODUCTION Government human resource development is very important for a successful organization thus it is necessary to manage strategically (Burma, 2014). Consequently, the government must be able to manage its human resources. As expressed by Rohida, Nuryanto, & Syarif (2018) that good personnel management based on qualifications, competence, morality, and integrity as well as institutional needs can realize government human resources to become part of the solutions and not part of the problems. To make this happen, it is necessary to pay attention to seven trends of future bureaucratic changes that will transform the way bureaucracy works. One of them is dynamic and flexible personnel management (Faedlulloh, Maarif, Meutia, & Yulianti (2020:326). Theoretically and empirically, simplification of the bureaucratic structure is deemed necessary because the characteristics that are too bureaucratic are no longer in line with bureaucratic reform which results in obstruction of the professional development of its human resources (Nurhestitunggal & Muhlisin, 2020:14). The simplification of the bureaucratic structure was carried out by