Workshop on Systems Analysis Summary Report (1984) / Chapter Skim
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'OBSERVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS'
'OBSERVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS'
Pages 75-94
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MANPOWER AND TRAINING Manpower To enable the effective application of systems analysis in a large and complex society facing numerous technical, administrative, and social problems, the number of trained systems analysts in Indonesia must be increased severalfold. A target number for the fourth 5-year development plan (REPELITA IV)
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University Cooperation and Coordination Indonesian universities and technical colleges already have contacts with major educational institutions throughout the world. Extending and focusing these relationships, both internally and externally, are the keys to achieving a successful educational program for, and the use of, systems analysis.
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Literature The panel found the literature resources available to the Indonesian teams (and those not represented at the workshop) to be very deficient.
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Each group leader should have a supportive, mature, administrative alter ego who can help identify and define key issues and deal with management problems that might otherwise hinder a team's efforts. Management training exercises for present and potential team leaders led by such administrators can help achieve better results and appraise potential group leaders for new projects.
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BPPT should also initiate a program of project planning and control to provide formal statements and definitions of the problems to be undertaken. These formal problem statements would be made available both internally and externally to (1)
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Without a regular source of educated analysts whose skills are continually being upgraded by education and outside contacts, effective computer support, good literature and correspondence resources, and appropriate communications with and the cooperation of the using agency, the systems analysis task in Indonesia will not be accomplished. These four implementation requirements must be undertaken by the BPPT and other appropriate government authorities if the excellent start that the NRC panel recognizes is to become the foundation for significant progress.
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The panel views this council as an advocate for systems analysis; a monitor of the quality of S/A projects, personnel, and education; a means of providing constructive assistance to Indonesian educational institutions in increasing their number of S/A students and expanding their curricula; and an important resource to the Minister of State for Research and Technology, BPPT, and other agencies in the development of S/A policies.
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on incineration and refuse collection in Jakarta • To discuss sampling procedures for studying solid waste characteristics. FIELD TRIP OBSERVATIONS Field trips were made by NRC panelist Abraham Michaels and BPPT solid waste team members to sanitation facilities in Jakarta and Surabaya.
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The NRC panel found that the waste characteristics test procedure used by BPPT is good and should be continued except that the category of waste identified as "organic" should be divided into food waste and heavy, dense waste such as leaves, tree and shrub trimmings, and fruit and vegetable market waste. It would probably be desirable to increase the frequency of sampling for test purposes to four times a year.
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It may be desirable to expand this study by adding alternatives such as the use of temporary container locations to be serviced in accordance with an appropriate schedule. The BPPT solid waste group intends to test the recommended Models IV and V -- container and compactor models -- in several locations.
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The three major problems identified in relation to developing and testing these alternatives can be overcome by related steps: 1. Securing additional data about the current location of people and jobs in the Jakarta metropolitan area and about their transport needs 2.
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Studies should be planned in such a way as to develop skills, train personnel, improve interagency cooperation, and create a stock of data and computer software as the work proceeds. This means that simple studies well suited to the capacities of other agencies should be done in cooperation with them.
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In considering the application of systems analysis to the Indonesian food system, the NRC panel recommends that the fact that the nature and degree of complexity of the food system differ from those of the waste disposal and transportation studies be reflected in the general approach to implementing systems analysis in this complex area. While the latter two areas include some characteristics of systems engineering in which an ultimate objective appears achievable, the development of a model for the food system will of necessity be evolutionary in character, with gains in the total development made only in increments over time as additional sectors and functions of the system are included in the overall study.
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SUGGESTED FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING SYSTEMS ANALYSIS Although a generalized analytical S/A model of the Indonesian food system would be most desirable, it is not practical to develop a model that is intended to answer all questions or provide information on any policy issue that might be required of it. Considering this limitation, what should the food system study staff do next with regard to introducing analytical methods into their product flow model?
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It is possible, however, to select arbitrarily a few key policy issues -- such as an alternative investment in food systems technology development and dissemination -- that can be answered by relatively straightforward analytical methodologies. For example, a budgeting methodology might be applied to the commodity flow model in a manner described in the food system study base paper.
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The food system study staff should also start outlining commodity flow models for other important food products in a manner similar to the rice model. This can be conducted in a piecemeal manner over time while some of the above work is being completed.
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continuing support of the mutual interest in the S/A approach, (2) an effective continuing education opportunity, and (3)
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