48 civil servants receive award

TANGERANG (JP): Some 48 civil servants of the Tangerang Land Agency (BPN) received the Satya Lencana Karya, an annual award from the President to anyone who has served a 10-year or 20-year term at any governmental institution.

"Tangerang Mayor M. Thamrin presented the awards to the 48 civil servants after a flag-raising ceremony at the agency's compound on Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan in Cikokol on Monday morning," mayoralty administration spokesman Hery Kusnadi told The Jakarta Post.

Hery said 20 of the civil servants had worked for 20 years, while another 28 had served for 10 years as civil servants with the agency.

Thamrin, who delivered Minister of Home Affairs Hari Sabarno's speech at the ceremony, said that in a bid to improve BPN's services, the government had installed computerized systems at 38 land agency offices all over the country and would build more in the future. (41)