Abolishment of information ministry

Abolishment of information ministry

From Bisnis Indonesia

I sympathize with the employees of the Ministry of
Information, which was abolished by the government, and hope that
the government can solve the problem wisely.

However, I was very surprised to read some data from the
National Agency for the Civil Service Administration (BAKN)
showing that the information ministry had no less than 52,000
employees, which far exceeded the Ministry of Public Works with
39,000, Ministry of Social Affairs 22,000, Ministry of
Cooperatives 16,200 and Ministry of Transmigration 17,300.

I wonder why the information ministry had such a large
personnel. What were they for? Who in the leadership of that
ministry drew up the policy to recruit such a great number of
employees? According to my logic, the Ministry of Public Works
should employ more people than the information ministry, because
the former has had a lot more projects to be done throughout the
country.

Given the above data, one can imagine that the inefficiency in
the Ministry of Information is very high, and hence the
abolishment of the ministry is a must.

Furthermore, one of the former information ministers, who
served the longest period in office, must be held responsible for
the recruitment of such a large number of employees and should
explain about the rationale of the policy.

AMIR KARAMOY

Jakarta