Kepulauan Seribu regent nominated<\/p>\n
Ahmad Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
City Governor Sutiyoso nominated on Friday the second
\ncandidate to hold the post as the first regent of Kepulauan
\nSeribu (the Thousand Islands), after the first candidate was
\nrejected by the City Council.<\/p>\n
Sutiyoso nominated East Jakarta secretary Dadang Kafrawi as a
\nreplacement for the other candidate, head of the city fisheries
\nagency, M. Rahardjo, who was considered incompetent by the city
\ncouncil.<\/p>\n
\"Yes, we only proposed one candidate. We are awaiting the
\ncouncil's approval,\" Sutiyoso told reporters after conducting
\nFriday prayers at City Hall.<\/p>\n
Before Kafrawi became the East Jakarta secretary, he had held
\nthe post of district head of the Thousand Islands.<\/p>\n
Sutiyoso hoped the regency could be officially inaugurated
\nsoon after the council had approved the city's new candidate as
\nregent.<\/p>\n
According to Law no. 34\/1999 on city administration, the
\nappointment of a mayor and of a regent should be approved by the
\ncouncil leadership.<\/p>\n
Councillor Binsar Tambunan, however, did not seem to be
\nenthusiastic about the new candidate for regent proposed by the
\ngovernor.<\/p>\n
He said that the council actually hoped that the
\nadministration would nominate a candidate who had experience in
\ntourism.<\/p>\n
\"Since the Thousand Islands will be developed as a marine
\ntourism area, the regent should have a tourism background. The
\ncandidate could have been selected from the city's tourism
\nagency,\" Binsar of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Experience in administrative affairs alone was not enough, he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The inauguration of the Thousand Islands as a regency was
\ndelayed as the council did not approve the candidate for the post
\nof regent.<\/p>\n
Last month, the council approved, by means of a bylaw that
\ndivides the Thousand Islands district into two, North Thousand
\nIslands and South Thousand Islands districts.<\/p>\n
According to a source at City Hall, Penjaringan district
\ndeputy head Usmayadi would be appointed as head of North Thousand
\nIslands district, while the Thousand Islands district deputy head
\nAnwar would be appointed as head of South Thousand Islands
\ndistrict.<\/p>\n
The fate of the current Thousand Islands district chief, Unu
\nMaknun, is not clear, the source said.<\/p>",
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