Most civil servants unproductive, unskilled<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
State Minister of Administrative Reforms Feisal Tamin has
\ncriticized the civil service, saying some 60 percent, or
\n3,000,000, of its five million staff are unproductive,
\nunprofessional and corrupt.<\/p>\n
"Around 60 percent of our civil servants are unproductive and
\nhave low standards of professionalism. Some go to office just to
\nread a newspaper and many only see their offices once a year,"
\nFeisal said after swearing in new executives of the Civil
\nServants Corps office in Batam, Riau, on Friday.<\/p>\n
Overstaffing in government offices across the country dates
\nback to the New Order era but no concrete action has been taken
\nto solve the problem due to the high unemployment rate.
\nUnemployment has reached 48 million nationwide.<\/p>\n
Feisal said all government offices, agencies and state-owned
\ncompanies employing civil servants should be reorganized in a
\nmove to minimize overstaffing.<\/p>\n
"We currently have five million civil servants, but only 40
\npercent of them have the skills and qualifications needed to do
\ntheir tasks properly. With the proposed organizational revamp, a
\ngovernment office should no longer be over or short staffed," he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The minister, who is a former secretary-general of the home
\nministry and former chairman of the Indonesian Civil Servants
\nCorps (Korpri), acknowledged that corruption and collusion was
\nrampant in the civil service but said it was very difficult to
\nminimize because of the absence of data and of reports on the
\npractices.<\/p>\n
"Qualitatively, the number of legal violations and corruption
\ncases in the civil service is very high, and many have been
\npunished according to civil service rulings and the law," he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Feisal has called on the public to report corrupt civil
\nservants through P.O. Box 5000, saying his office would look into
\nreports and complaints submitted through the post box.<\/p>\n
"The public, including journalists, are encouraged to report
\ncorrupt government workers, complete with data to allow
\ninvestigators to probe the cases professionally," he said.<\/p>\n
He said the government would also issue a ruling barring
\ngovernment officers from occupying two jobs because it would make
\nthem unprofessional and unproductive and simultaneously decrease
\njob opportunities for others.<\/p>\n
Feisal said further that the government was also considering a
\nreturn to the six-day working week for civil servants to provide
\noptimum service to the public.<\/p>\n
"The five-day working week, which was implemented almost 10
\nyears ago, has been found to be ineffective, leading to
\ninefficiency in the provision of government services," he said.<\/p>",
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