Govt to pay civil servants<\/p>\n
SURABAYA: A senior central government official here has firmly
\ndenied rumors that the administration would no longer be able to
\npay civil servants' salaries in three or four months' time.<\/p>\n
Sunarko RM, head of the Civil Servant Affairs Administration
\nAgency (BAKN), called on the public Monday not to believe the
\nrumors and said the government would pay the salaries as usual.<\/p>\n
Funds for government salaries are usually set aside in the
\nstate budget under the heading of \"routine expenditures\", he
\nsaid, adding that the amount appropriated under the current
\nbudget had not been affected by the economic crisis.<\/p>\n
The crisis has only led to a reduction in the amount allocated
\nto \"development expenditures\", he said.<\/p>\n
Sunarko said development expenditures covered government
\nagency expansions and the costs of operations and maintaining
\nfacilities.<\/p>\n
Citing an example, he said a government department's plans to
\nbuild five buildings had to be scrapped under the current budget.<\/p>\n
Asked about an apparent shrinkage in the civil servants corps,
\nSunarko said the government's personnel office had been adhering
\nto a \"minus growth\" policy since 1995.<\/p>\n
Under the policy, the personnel office would, for example,
\nonly recruit 60,000 new civil servants following the retirement
\nof 80,000 government employees, he said.<\/p>\n
The ideal number of civil servants in a country is 1 percent
\nto 1.5 percent of the population. Indonesia now has a total of
\nfour million civil servants, nearly 2 percent of the population.<\/p>",
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