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