Appointments of 'unskilled teachers' protested

Appointments of 'unskilled teachers' protested

PADANG, West Sumatra: The Padang administration in West Sumatra
has been criticized for appointing around 100 allegedly
unqualified teachers as civil servants in public schools.

At least 100 temporarily employed teachers demonstrated at the
Padang mayor's office on Tuesday to demand that the appointments
by the local state employment agency be annulled.

The agency was spending more than Rp 180 million to train the
new teachers.

The protesters from the Association of Temporarily Employed
Indonesian Teachers (IGHI) also rejected the allocation of the
state funds for the training.

They said the allocation of the funds had offended the around
7,000 temporarily employed teachers because none of them were
made civil servants.

"The policy has clearly destroyed the world of education and
belittled the profession of temporarily employed teachers who
have not been appointed as civil servants despite assignments for
many years," Yulfa Heri, leader of the Padang-based IGHI, said
during the demonstration. --JP