Bandung employees wait for salary<\/p>\n
BANDUNG: Some 331 contract (non-permanent) employees with the
\nWest Java administration have not received their salaries for the
\npast two months.<\/p>\n
One of the employees, Ade, who works as a security guard,
\ncould not explain when asked why the salaries had not been paid.<\/p>\n
\"This is our only source of income,\" he remarked.<\/p>\n
A source with the administration's finance section said the
\nemployees had not been paid since their contracts had expired two
\nmonths ago and that thus far no extension of their contracts had
\nbeen proposed.<\/p>\n
Governor R. Nuriana, when pressed by journalists over the
\nmatter, said he would immediately instruct his staff to pay the
\ncontract employees' wages.<\/p>\n
He noted that his administration still required the services
\nof the non-permanent employees, particularly those working as
\ncleaners, gardeners and security guards.<\/p>\n
Nuriana added as a result of regional autonomy, his
\nadministration was being forced to employ a large number of civil
\nservants by the central government who now had to be paid by the
\nprovincial government.<\/p>\n
He argued that the 23,000 civil servants now employed by his
\nadministration far exceeded the actual number required and that
\nthe number of employees had risen by 40 percent over recent
\nmonths.<\/p>\n
Nuriana said he would submit a claim to the central government
\nfor an increased subvention due to the large number of civil
\nservants transferred to his administration, particularly as the
\nfunds required for the payment of their wages exceeded the
\ngeneral budget allocation of Rp 500 billion.(25)<\/p>",
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