City postpones installation of military chiefs
City postpones installation of military chiefs
JAKARTA (JP): The city administration has abruptly postponed
the installation of four of the five military members who were
scheduled to be appointed to the city's top positions on Monday.
The abrupt decision was announced to the media on Friday
evening by city office spokesman Kamaludin Santos.
Kamaludin, however, refused to give any comments about the
reason for the postponement.
"Just wait," was all he would say to the reporters' questions.
According to Kamaludin, there would be eight, not the earlier
announced seven, new senior officials installed in a ceremony to
be conducted by Governor Sutiyoso at City Hall on Monday morning.
But the positions for the new officials were slightly
different from the positions which had been announced earlier by
a reliable source in the city administration.
Only three of the new posts are identical to the old posts.
These three are the heads of the city's social and political
affairs directorate, the city-owned market management PD Pasar
Jaya and Jakarta's development finance controller (BKPMD).
In the new version of appointments announced by Kamaludin, the
other five posts include the head of the city office of the
Ministry Cooperatives and Small Enterprises and directors of four
city-run hospitals.
Out of the eight new officials, only one, Dody Sudarno, will
be from the military. Sudarno will chair the city's social and
political affairs directorate.
Kamaludin refused to comment about Dody, but a source in the
city administration said that Dody was a colonel from the Jakarta
Military Command.
Previously, the governor was scheduled to install seven new
officials, five of whom had military backgrounds, for the city
administration's senior posts.
The five ABRI members were to chair the city's social and
political affairs directorate, the city land transportation
agency, the city sanitary agency, the city parking agency and the
civilian defense unit's provincial headquarters.
The two civilians were to chair the city-owned market
management PD Pasar Jaya and the development finance controller.
On Thursday, Sutiyoso even defended the appointment of the
five military members, saying that it had been processed a long
time ago.
The governor, who met the media several hours before Kamaludin
issued the revised appointment plan, did not mention anything
about the abrupt postponement.
According to Kamaludin, on Monday the governor will install
Albert Napitupulu as head of BKPMD, Syahrir Tanjung as the new
chair of PD Pasar Jaya and Samsul Hilatana as head of the city
office of the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small Enterprises.
Sutiyoso will also install Zulrasdi Djaias, Umar Wahid, Abdul
Chalik Masulili and Martin Bimbuain as directors of Haji Hospital
in East Jakarta, Pasar Rebo Hospital in East Jakarta, Koja
Hospital in North Jakarta and Tarakan Hospital in Central
Jakarta, he said. (ind)