IAPA 2021 Annual Conference of Indonesian Association for Public Administration Volume 2022 Conference Leveraging Agile Transformation: Redesigning Local Government Governance Tuti Kurnia 1* , Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni 2 , Asrinaldi 3 and Roni Ekha Putera 4 1 Policy Study of Doctoral Programme, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Andalas 2 Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret 3 Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Andalas 4 Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Andalas ORCID Tuti Kurnia: 0000-0001-5090-6132 Abstract. A change from bureaucracy as a machine to a lively bureaucracy is needed for future VUCA. Being ”agile” is a defence strategy for bureaucracy to handle disruptions. Transformation of local government from a hierarchical system to an agile bureaucracy while maintaining stability and sustainably delivering services to citizens in diverse spaces and times necessitates leveraging a range of factors. We conducted a systematic literature review to explore enabling factors that help leverage agility for local government governance transformation. Redesigning local government bureaucracy requires a shared commitment and an integrated central government policy framework for enabling the support system. We prescribe a new model of local government governance in disaster-prone areas, which needs to be supported by an elite team who are responsive, flexible and innovative in real-time. This group should have expertise in policy analysis, human wellbeing, health, food supply, communication, informatics, risk disaster management, and mitigation to maintain future governance. This futuristic local government organizational design adapts crisis management into an integrated digital system dominated by strategic management levels, which adhere to morals and values. Keywords: agile local governance, crisis management, operational policy, redesign bureaucracy, responsiveness in VUCA 1. Introduction The level of effectiveness of the Indonesian government (65,3) is still far behind (World- wide Governance Indicators, 2020). Bureaucracy becomes dynamically compatible (world-class bureaucracy) with environmental changes in the expected achievement of bureaucratic reform policies, not yet achieved. However, the evaluation result of bureaucratic reform implementation (The Bureaucratic Reform Index), describes the neglect of the local government to the implementation of bureaucratic reform policies. As many as 76% of the Regency/City Government and 21% of the Provincial Government are not good (<B) and as many as 109 regional governments have not submitted How to cite this article: Tuti Kurnia, Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni, Asrinaldi and Roni Ekha Putera , (2022), “Leveraging Agile Transformation: Redesigning Local Government Governance” in 2021 Annual Conference of Indonesian Association for Public Administration, KnE Social Sciences, pages 720–733. DOI 10.18502/kss.v7i5.10589 Page 720 Corresponding Author: Tuti Kurnia; email: 2130872001_tuti@student. unand.ac.id Published 15 March 2022 Publishing services provided by Knowledge E Tuti Kurnia et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. Selection and Peer-review under the responsibility of the IAPA Conference Committee.