Try calls for better supervision<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Vice President Try Sutrisno acknowledged
\nyesterday that thousands of cases of irregularities have occurred
\nat the Ministry of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a meeting with officials of the ministry, Try
\nblamed the deviations within the bureaucracy on the poor
\nsupervision of employees.<\/p>\n
He said that internal supervision was the most essential
\naspect needed to guarantee that an organization ran well.<\/p>\n
\"Many deviations, abuses of power, financial leaks as well as
\nfinancial mismanagement in state offices happen because internal
\nsupervision is not good,\" Try said.<\/p>\n
Try, who was making an official visit to the ministry, was
\naccompanied by Minister of Finance Mar'ie Muhammad and Minister
\nof Administrative Reforms T.B. Silalahi.<\/p>\n
Try said that officials of the Ministry of Tourism, Post and
\nTelecommunications should understand thoroughly the meaning of
\ninternal supervision and not see it only as a superior's form of
\ncontrol over his or her staff.<\/p>\n
\"Internal supervision is both the act of monitoring and a
\nmeans of control by the leader of an organization or a working
\nunit. It is meant to ensure that every division within the
\norganization functions well and has orderly and accurate
\nrelations with other divisions,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"In the end, the success of managing this will produce the
\nbest performance the organization could ever have,\" Try added.<\/p>\n
He pointed out that tight supervision should not be considered
\nthe task only of officials holding functional positions in
\ngovernment agencies.<\/p>\n
\"State employees must be watched over by internal supervision,
\nfunctional supervision and public supervision,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Cases<\/p>\n
Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications Joop Ave
\nreported to the Vice President yesterday that the office of the
\nministry's Inspector General unveiled 1,304 cases of various
\nmisdeeds during the 1993\/1994 fiscal year.<\/p>\n
All of these, Joop said, have been dealt with.<\/p>\n
In the 1994\/1995 fiscal year, 1,132 cases were discovered and
\n839 of them (74.11 percent) were legally dealt with, while in the
\n1995\/1996 period, 313 cases were found and 62 (19.81 percent)
\nfollowed up.<\/p>\n
Thus over the last three years, 2,749 cases were reported, of
\nwhich 2,205 (80.02 percent) were investigated.<\/p>\n
Joop yesterday also up-dated Try with the latest achievements
\nof his ministry.<\/p>\n
\"We established a tourism consolidation forum late last year
\nwith the task of setting up intersectoral policies and
\nrecommendations to make tourism the country's number one foreign
\ncurrency earner by the year 2005,\" he said.<\/p>\n
In the beginning of the First Five-Year Development Plan
\n(Repelita I) in 1969, the tourism sector gained US$10.8 million
\nin revenues from 86,100 foreign tourists visiting the country.<\/p>\n
In 1993, or by the end of the Fifth Five-Year Development Plan
\n(Repelita V), the sector managed to reap $3.9 billion, almost
\nfour times of that in 1969, from 3.4 million foreign tourists.<\/p>\n
Last year, it gained $5.2 billion from 4.3 million foreign
\ntourists.<\/p>\n
Try, in a question and answer session, also heard from the
\nministry's staff of the first to third echelons and heads of the
\nstate-owned companies overseen by the ministry. (pwn)<\/p>",
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