Government at a Glance Southeast Asia 2025 was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, and by ADB Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, under the leadership of Jose Antonio R. Tan III, Director. The work was overseen and managed by Conor Das-Doyle (OECD) and Irfan Qureshi (ADB) under the direction of Monica Brezzi (OECD), Santiago González (OECD) and Jose Antonio R. Tan III (ADB) and with support from Maria Rowena M. Cham (ADB). Major drafting contributions were provided by Timothy Tennant, Alessandro Lupi, Anne Keller, Andrew Blazey, Brett Carson, Jacob Arturo Rivera Perez, Cecilia Emilsson, Ricardo Zapata, Marco Beltrán Navarro, Albert Rapha, Vania Atika Sari, and Tenzin Dekyi (OECD). The report has benefited from valuable comments from Gillian Dorner (OECD), Luis Almeida, Jaehwa Lee, Anjum Israr, Dai Chang Song, Henry Ma and Nyda Mukhtar (all ADB). Julie Harris edited the publication.
This joint publication of the OECD and ADB is the result of contributions from a wide range of sources and expertise. The OECD and ADB would like to acknowledge financial support from the Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund (EAKPF), provided through the technical assistance (TA) 6952: Policy Advice for COVID-19 Economic Recovery in Southeast Asia Phase 1 (PACER II). The OECD-Korea Policy Centre supported networks of regional officials on digital government (Chapter 5) and public administrative services (Chapter 6), which were instrumental in enabling the development of these chapters.
The authors express their gratitude to country officials from Southeast Asia who replied to surveys and helped during the data validation process. In particular, we thank officials from the agencies that acted as national contact points for their countries, who have provided invaluable assistance in the co-ordination and completion of the report: Prime Minister's Office (Brunei Darussalam), Ministry of Economy and Finance (Cambodia), Ministry of State Apparatus Utilisation and Bureaucratic Reform (Indonesia), Ministry of Interior (Lao People’s Democratic Republic), Ministry of Finance (Malaysia), Department of Budget and Management (Philippines), Office of Public Sector Development Commission (Thailand), Prime Minister's Office - Public Service Division (Singapore), and Ministry of Home Affairs (Viet Nam).