Every citizen will always be in touch with bureaucratic activities by government administration. Even when a person is still in his/her mother's womb he/she has begun to depend on bureaucratic service. Thus, theoretically and practically, the quality of management and professionalism of public services should be more oriented towards the goals of government paradigms based on new management approaches. So the spirit of government in building a clean and good governance can be achieved. This article was aimed to explore the phenomenon of bureaucratic pathology in government administration. Methodology used in this article was content analysis, one of the research approaches in qualitative research. Data were originated from the writer's reading of various theories, expert opinions and previous research results related to bureaucratic pathology. All data then collected, reduced, presented and closed with conclusions. In the beginning of this article authors begin with introduction, then related to bureaucracy, bureaucratic pathology, solving bureaucratic pathology problems, changing the pathology with the principle of good governance and concluding with the conclusion. The discussion of this article is expected to serve as an additional reference material for the community, academics, subsequent researchers who will address this issue in different contexts and issues