City does not plan to recruit staff

City does not plan to recruit staff

JAKARTA (JP): The city administration will not recruit new
employees for several years because of the 36,800 new staff it
has received as a result of regional autonomy.

Governor Sutiyoso made the statement during a ceremony to
welcome 34,545 new city employees who were transferred from seven
of the city's ministry and state minister offices. The ceremony
was held near the National Monument on Thursday.

The new employees came from the Jakarta offices of the
ministries of national education, health and social welfare,
industry and trade, manpower and transmigration, agriculture,
transportation and telecommunications, and the office of the
state minister of forestry. The majority of the new employees
formerly worked for the Ministry of National Education.

The city also took in 2,301 employees from the now defunct
ministries of information and social affairs last year.

With around 72,000 employees, the city is now overstaffed,
Sutiyoso said. (jun)