To echo your argument, after a few opportunities to participate in international fora as a civil servant, I learned that in most developed countries jobs in governmental bodies are basically treated the same way as those in the private sectors. People are free to go in and out of these agencies, meaning that admission to the government is not just done at the entry-level, allowing public sector to retain highly competent staff. In Indonesia it is hard to get fired as ASN unless you do something extremely terrible.
To echo your argument, after a few opportunities to participate in international fora as a civil servant, I learned that in most developed countries jobs in governmental bodies are basically treated the same way as those in the private sectors. People are free to go in and out of these agencies, meaning that admission to the government is not just done at the entry-level, allowing public sector to retain highly competent staff. In Indonesia it is hard to get fired as ASN unless you do something extremely terrible.