Good Governance vs Sound Governance: A Comparative Theoretical Analysis

Good governance is a fresh air, especially for Indonesia governance today. This theory was created in order to improve governance in various countries including Indonesia. With the concept, the governance is expected to be able to reach the high level of transparency, accountability, rule of law, equality, effective and efficiency in government and certainly free of corruption. However unwittingly behind this concept actually weaken the position of the government as an entity of power in a state, so easily influenced by foreign policy. As the antithesis, it appears a new concept called the sound governance. However, the sustainability of this new concept is certainly invites a question mark, whether the concept is able to counter and opposed to the concept of good governance or will only promise a concept in the false hope for developing countries, including Indonesia. The purpose of this reseacrh is to describe a theoretical comparison between good governance and sound governance and how the actualization of the concept in Indonesia. So by comparison, it is known, which concept would be more relevant to the development of the theory of government and governance conditions in Indonesia today. This reseacrh is a qualitative comparative research, using the technique library reseacrh with content analysis approach, this research will produce the critical concept of both theories that would produce a conclusion which theory is more relevant as a theory that really constructive to current governance and public administration, especially in Indonesia.