Bureaucrats to take urine test

Bureaucrats to take urine test

KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Civil servants working at the
Southeast Sulawesi administration office will soon have to
undergo urine tests to determine whether they are drug abusers.

Deputy Southeast Sulawesi governor Yusran Silondae said on
Tuesday that the move was in line with Minister of Home Affairs
Hari Sabarno's order for state officials at all levels to undergo
such a test.

Yusran said the test would be administered by the Food and
Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM), the provincial health office and
the police.

"We will not hesitate to impose administrative and legal
sanctions on civil servants who test positive for illegal drug,"
he said.

However, he did not specify the punishment.

Yusran admitted that several local officials had been involved
in illegal drug violations. -- JP