authority of the health of the head of population and civil registration of the head of regulation by law regulation

department of population and civil registration is one of the regional service which is part of the regional apparatus that has the task of carrying out regional government affairs and assistance tasks in the field of population and civil registration. the purpose of this paper is to analyze the arrangements for the authority of the appointment of heads of population and civil registration according to legislation, and the implementation of the appointment of the head of the population and civil registration service. research methods, types of normative legal research with regulatory approaches, conceptual approaches, and case approaches, using primary legal materials, secondary legal materials and tertiary legal materials. legal materials obtained are processed and analyzed prescriptively normatively. conclusion, there is a conflict of authority setting norms for the appointment of the head of the population and civil registration service in force in indonesia which results in juridical defects of state administrative decrees issued by officials deemed unauthorized, legal products in the form of decrees issued by unauthorized officials must be revoked and declared invalid as stipulated in law no. 30 of 2014 concerning government administration.