Fire lazy civil servants: Minister<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Civil servants who are absent for 12 days consecutively
\nwithout notice must be fired, according to State Minister of
\nAdministrative Reforms Feisal Tamin.<\/p>\n
\"If no harsh measures are taken against them, it's not good
\nenough,\" Feisal said in a meeting with West Nusa Tenggara
\nofficials in Mataram on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
West Nusa Tenggara Governor Harun Al Rasyid, a number of top
\nprovincial officials, councillors and religious leaders attended
\nthe meeting.<\/p>\n
The minister said at the meeting that heads of state
\ndepartments and agencies had to reprimand their subordinates, who
\nwere often absent without permission.<\/p>\n
If civil leaders did not know if their subordinates were
\nabsent for 12 days or more consecutively without notice, those
\nleaders had to be dismissed too.<\/p>\n
The minister also said that governors and regents also had to
\nbe monitored, at least once every six months, to find out if they
\nreally worked or not.<\/p>\n
He did not specify exactly who should monitor governors and
\nregents.<\/p>\n
Governors and regents are under the supervision of the
\nMinistry of Home Affairs.<\/p>\n
\"Our country is currently sick. If civil servants, governors
\nand regents work as they like, this country will go to the dogs,\"
\nhe was quoted by Antara as saying.<\/p>\n
He said Indonesia currently had around four million civil
\nservants, insufficient to serve some 210 million people.<\/p>\n
Ideally, Indonesia needed at least five million civil
\nservants, or 2.5 percent of the total population.<\/p>\n
With such a below-par number of civil servants, he said, they
\nand government officials had to be dedicated to serve the nation.<\/p>\n
It was not clear, however, if Feisal's statement would be
\nfollowed by a directive or even a ministerial decree aimed at
\nimproving the performance of civil servants.<\/p>\n
Previously, Feisal announced the government's austerity
\nprogram and the directive for officials to lead more modest
\nlifestyles.<\/p>\n
The program included limitations on the use of paper and
\ntelephones in offices. State officials were also asked not to
\nwear suits.<\/p>\n
The program was met with enthusiasm in the beginning, when it
\nwas introduced in late December, but not long after that, it was
\nalready being ignored by state officials.<\/p>",
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