W. Java, Banten respond poorly to reregistration<\/p>\n
Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung, West Java<\/p>\n
The government's nationwide reregistration program for civil
\nservants has apparently received poor response from officials in
\nWest Java and Banten provinces.<\/p>\n
More than 50 percent of civil servants in the two provinces
\nhad yet to return their reregistration forms to authorities by
\nthe July 31 deadline.<\/p>\n
Dede Djunaedy, who heads the Regional III Office at the State
\nCivil Servants Agency (BKN) overseeing West Java and Banten, said
\nhere on Monday that only 213,876, or 47 percent, of around
\n453,000 civil servants in the two provinces had submitted their
\nforms.<\/p>\n
"The geographic factor is the main problem as to why they
\n(civil servants) are reluctant to return the reregistration
\nforms. Many of them, particularly teachers, live in remote areas
\nthat lack access to transportation and communications
\nfacilities," he told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
The absence of sanctions for those failing to return forms has
\nalso made the reregistration program less effective, Dede said.<\/p>\n
He said that although the deadline had passed, the Lebak
\nregency administration in Banten had not yet submitted data on
\nlocal officials who had returned the forms to his office.<\/p>\n
To address the problem, Dede said his office would take a
\nproactive stance and directly collect the forms from civil
\nservants in the two provinces.<\/p>\n
Provincial and central BKN offices had decided to extend the
\nsubmission deadline for civil servants in West Java and Banten
\nuntil the end of this month, he said.<\/p>\n
The nationwide reregistration program was launched by the
\nMinistry of Home Affairs in cooperation with the State Ministry
\nof Administrative Reforms in a bid to boost bureaucratic
\nefficiency in the country.<\/p>\n
Home minister Hari Sabarno said another objective of the
\nprogram was to screen civil servants in regards their loyalty to
\nthe unitary state of Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Asked how they would assess whether state officials were loyal
\nto the country, he said their answers on the forms would indicate
\ntheir loyalty.<\/p>\n
The program was initiated days after the central government
\nimposed martial law in troubled Aceh to crush the Free Aceh
\nMovement separatists, who were believed to have the tacit backing
\nof certain officials in the province.<\/p>\n
State Minister of Administrative Reforms M. Faisal Tamin said
\nsome 12,000 civil servants would be affected by the government's
\nefficiency measures following the reregistration program.<\/p>",
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