Jurnal Studi Multidisiplin Ilmu

Strategic Monitoring and Evaluation Practices in Local Government Performance Accountability Systems

2026-07-21T14:01:28+00:00

Purpose: This study examines how monitoring and evaluation practices function within the strategic management cycle of a public organization at the local government level, using the Belitang area of East Ogan Komering Ulu Regency, Indonesia, as the empirical setting. The paper investigates how monitoring and evaluation are implemented, what constraints limit their effectiveness, and how performance accountability can be strengthened.
Research Methodology: A qualitative case study design was used, drawing on document analysis of regional planning and performance reports, semi-structured interviews with regional apparatus officials, and thematic analysis guided by an evidencebased performance management framework.
Results: The findings show that monitoring and evaluation in the study area remain largely administrative rather than substantive. Four interrelated constraints were identified: limited human resource capacity for analysis, fragmented information systems, a weak organizational evaluation culture, and insufficient follow-up on evaluation findings.
Conclusions: Monitoring and evaluation are essential components of strategic management in public organizations, yet their contribution to performance improvement depends on integration with planning, information systems, and organizational learning routines rather than compliance reporting alone.
Limitations: The single-site qualitative design limits statistical generalizability, and reliance on retrospective interview accounts introduces potential recall bias.
Contributions: The study extends performance management literature by illustrating how national accountability frameworks translate into practice at the sub-district level and offers a practical model for strengthening evaluation utilization in resource-constrained local governments.

Global AI Cooperation and Responsible Use: Balancing Security, Social Dynamics, and Moderated Adoption

2026-09-17T08:32:23+00:00

Purpose: This study examines how the world can pursue global cooperation on Artificial Intelligence (AI) while keeping its deployment responsible, secure and socially sustainable, focusing on the security risks, social consequences and governance gaps that accompany AI's rapid diffusion, and arguing for moderated adoption rather than unrestricted acceleration or blanket resistance.
Methodology:A qualitative documentary design was used, drawing on recent reports from the United Nations, UNESCO, African Union, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), International Labour Organization (ILO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Energy Agency (IEA), and World Economic Forum, supported by peer-reviewed literature published mainly between 2021 and 2026 and analysed thematically.
Results: AI already raises productivity, strengthens cybersecurity and expands access to services, yet it also widens inequality, enables synthetic disinformation and exposes roughly a quarter of the global workforce to task level disruption. Governance remains fragmented, and African countries face exclusion from rule making alongside limited capacity to capture AI's economic benefits.
Conclusions: A risk based, human centred and internationally coordinated approach to AI adoption can reconcile innovation with safety.
Limitations: The study relies on secondary institutional and scholarly sources rather than primary interviews or original quantitative modelling.
Contributions: It offers a five pillar framework linking AI security, social protection, governance, digital inclusion and responsible innovation, with attention to Africa's development priorities.

Academic Supervision and Coaching of a Junior Secondary Science Teacher: A Case Study

2026-07-27T13:29:32+00:00

Purpose: This study documents the implementation of academic supervision and post-observation coaching with a Science teacher at a Junior Secondary School (Madrasah Tsanawiyah) in Lampung, Indonesia, examining lesson-plan quality, instructional practice, and assessment implementation as the basis for professional feedback.
Research Methodology: A descriptive case-study design was used, combining document analysis of the lesson plan, classroom observation using three structured supervision instruments, and a post-observation coaching session following the GROW model. Each instrument scored multiple indicators on a four-point scale, converted to a percentage-based final result.
Results: The lesson-plan instrument yielded 79 out of 96 (82.29%), classified as Good. The lesson-implementation instrument yielded 81 out of 96 (84.38%), also Good. The assessment-implementation instrument yielded 80 out of 96 (83.33%), likewise Good. Coaching interviews indicated that limited textbook availability, rather than instructional skill, was the primary constraint on lesson delivery, and that practicum activities generated strong student engagement despite this constraint.
Conclusions: The teacher demonstrated consistently good performance across planning, delivery, and assessment domains, with resource limitation rather than pedagogical weakness identified as the principal barrier.
Limitations: The study is based on a single teacher and one supervision cycle, limiting generalizability, and relies on supervisor-administered instruments rather than triangulated multi-rater data.
Contributions: The study offers a replicable protocol combining structured observation with GROW-model coaching for supervision practicums, providing benchmark scores for similar academic supervision training in Indonesian teacher education.

The Nigerian Legislature, Law and Morality: Ethical Governance, Public Trust and Legislative Integrity

2026-09-16T06:33:49+00:00

Purpose: This study examines the relationship between the Nigerian legislature, law and morality, with emphasis on ethical conduct, legislative integrity, conflicts of interest, public trust and accountability.
Methodology: The study adopted a qualitative documentary research design, relying on constitutional provisions, legislative codes and rules, official parliamentary documents, judicial materials, international parliamentary standards and scholarly literature published substantially between 2019 and 2026, with comparative lessons drawn from Canada, Japan, South Korea and Lesotho.
Results: The study finds that legality constitutes the minimum enforceable standard for legislative conduct, whereas morality encompasses broader expectations of honesty, responsibility, fairness, restraint and commitment to the public interest, and that Nigeria possesses constitutional and institutional mechanisms addressing public-officer conduct, asset declaration, conflicts of interest and legislative ethics, but that the existence of rules does not automatically guarantee ethical legislative behaviour.
Conclusions: Ethical standards become more effective when supported by independent advice, disclosure mechanisms, enforceable conflict-of-interest rules, ethics committees, public reporting and sustained ethical education, and Nigeria's legislative culture should be built on the combination of law as the minimum standard and morality as the guide to responsible discretion.
Limitations: The documentary design does not incorporate primary interviews with legislators, ethics officers or affected stakeholders.
Contributions: The study proposes a strengthened enforcement architecture, institutionalised conflict-of-interest disclosure and a continuous ethics and public-integrity programme for the Nigerian legislature.