Uniform stitch-up for officials<\/p>\n
Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Disappointment flooded the face of one of the city's civil
\nservants recently, when he opened a parcel containing his new
\nuniform -- caps, belts, and three sets of trousers and shirts.<\/p>\n
"The trousers are not my size. The color of the shirts is
\ndarker than the trouser color. The set should be of the same
\nkhaki-brown color," Wawan, not his real name, sighed.<\/p>\n
Wawan is one of the civil servants who returned their uniforms
\n-- 2,200 caps and 300 trouser and shirt sets in all -- to the
\nCity Assets Office for alteration.<\/p>\n
Others, who did not return their uniforms still found reason
\nto complain.<\/p>\n
"I have bought the same material and paid a tailor to make a
\nnew one as I was not patient enough to wait for the altered
\nuniform," Agus, another civil servant, told The Jakarta Post on
\nSaturday.<\/p>\n
"I think the previous policy was better, when the
\nadministration handed out material and gave each of us Rp 50,000
\n(US$5.62) in cash to make a uniform," he said.<\/p>\n
In a procurement project worth Rp 22 billion, the
\nadministration purchased uniform material worth Rp 12.6 billion
\nfor 30,000 male and female officers.<\/p>\n
It gave 13,500 female officers Rp 150,000 each to make three
\nsets of uniform, costing Rp 2 billion in all.<\/p>\n
No information has been made available on the use of the
\nremaining Rp 7.4 billion in the project.<\/p>\n
Recently Transparency International Indonesia (TII) ranked
\nJakarta as the nation's most corrupt city.<\/p>\n
City spokesman Catur Laswanto acknowledged the complaints,
\nsaying the administration was discussing whether or not it would
\ncontinue with the policy, which was implemented this year.<\/p>\n
"We are evaluating what has gone wrong," Catur told the Post
\nover the weekend.<\/p>\n
He referred to the policy stipulated in Gubernatorial Decree
\n114\/2004 issued on July 6 last year regulating the procurement of
\nthe official uniform.<\/p>\n
The policy revises the initial policy to distribute only the
\nmaterial to the civil servants and allow them to look for their
\nown tailors.<\/p>\n
"The policy is actually meant to ensure uniformity and avoid
\ndifferent styles as occurred with the previous policy," Catur
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Head of the City Assets Agency's procurement division Latief
\nLubis, said that uniforms could be returned to the agency up
\nuntil the end of the month.<\/p>\n
"The company responsible for the procurement project, PT
\nSritex in Central Java, has agreed to replace the uniforms with
\nnew ones," Lubis said.<\/p>\n
"We don't know how the mistakes could have occurred as we
\nsubmitted 30 samples of different sizes," he said.<\/p>",
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