55,000 civil service posts open

55,000 civil service posts open

JAKARTA (JP): The government plans to recruit 55,000 new civil
servants in the current 1995/96 fiscal year as vacancies become
available chiefly through the retirement of existing employees.

The chief of the Civil Service Administration Agency,
Soenarto, said that 26,000 positions, or 47 percent of the
vacancies, are for teachers to be employed at government-run
schools, Antara reported.

"This is to prevent a shortage of teachers which has been
widely rumored," Soenarto told reporters on Monday.

Some 9,000 vacancies are for positions in Second Level
Regional Administrations (regency and mayoralty offices) and
another 6,000 for medical personnel, he said.

The government has maintained a freeze on any increase in the
size of the civil service over the past few years as it strived
to streamline the administration and save costs.

Soenarto said that the recruitment process is handled by each
government agency concerned, with the process beginning
simultaneously yesterday. "We hope that the results are reported
to us by next March," he said.

Meanwhile, Burhanuddin Anwar Tajibnapis, an assistant to the
state minister of administrative reform, explained that 2,000 of
the new positions are in the East Timor provincial
administration.

Of these 2,000 vacancies, 85 percent have been reserved for
native East Timorese and the rest for non-East Timorese.

The native East Timorese could eventually be posted outside
the region, he added. (emb)