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        "msgid": "sutiyoso-orders-officials-to-limit-trips-cut-spending-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-12-27 00:00:00",
        "title": "Sutiyoso orders officials to limit trips, cut spending",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Sutiyoso orders officials to limit trips, cut spending JAKARTA (JP): Following President Soeharto's order that the government tighten its belt, Governor Sutiyoso announced yesterday that his office would also limit official trips in a bid to cut spending. Sutiyoso said the restriction would include local and overseas trips. Officials would only be sent on very important business and without their spouses or other family members.",
        "content": "<p>Sutiyoso orders officials to limit trips, cut spending<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Following President Soeharto's order that the<br>\ngovernment tighten its belt, Governor Sutiyoso announced<br>\nyesterday that his office would also limit official trips in a<br>\nbid to cut spending.<\/p>\n<p>Sutiyoso said the restriction would include local and overseas<br>\ntrips. Officials would only be sent on very important business<br>\nand without their spouses or other family members.<\/p>\n<p>\"Actually, since the beginning of my tenure, I've stressed<br>\nthat unnecessary trips should not be authorized because it's just<br>\na waste of the city budget.<\/p>\n<p>\"I myself will reduce my official trips, particularly if they<br>\nare unnecessary.\"<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, President Soeharto ordered cabinet ministers and<br>\nheads of government agencies to avoid all unnecessary spending<br>\nand crack down on corruption and abuses of power in their<br>\nrespective offices.<\/p>\n<p>The President also called on officials to restrict local and<br>\noverseas trips and prohibited them from using state money to pay<br>\nfor spouses or family members to accompany them on working trips.<\/p>\n<p>A city councilor praised Sutiyoso yesterday for putting the<br>\nPresident's order into action.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Indonesian Democratic Party faction, Lukman<br>\nMokoginta, said: \"I do not say that the city administration does<br>\nnot need to take official trips. If it's necessary then why not,<br>\nbut do it with a spirit of efficiency.\"<\/p>\n<p>Lukman said duties such as visiting people in rural areas were<br>\nimportant because officials should maintain contact with the<br>\npublic.<\/p>\n<p>\"Expenses for the trips can be minimized by not staging any<br>\nspecial ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>\"All ceremonies cost money. I think a trip involving a hasty<br>\ninspection is more efficient because it doesn't require tents to<br>\nbe erected or food to be served to the officials and it will<br>\nautomatically reduce expenses.\"<\/p>\n<p>Lukman agreed with Sutiyoso's decision to forbid the wives and<br>\nfamily members of officials from accompanying them on official<br>\ntrips.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are experiencing an 'unusual' situation with the monetary<br>\ncrisis now so we should also act in an 'unusual' way,\" he said.<br>\n\"If we are used to a more glamorous way of life, now we should<br>\nleave such behavior behind.\" (ind)<\/p>",
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