City to shuffle senior officials including mayors

City to shuffle senior officials including mayors

JAKARTA (JP): A top city administration official revealed here
on Friday that some 15 senior officials in the administration may
soon be replaced, including some mayors.

Deputy Governor for Administrative Affairs Abdul Kahfi, after
presiding over a coordination meeting on the planned replacement,
would not go into detail saying only that some of the 15 "are
officials from local authorities, maybe position of mayor or
position of mayoralty secretary".

Kahfi, who also heads the city's Ranks and Position Advisory
Board, said replacements would be assessed in accordance with the
monthly evaluations held to review the performance of employees.

The board consists of all four deputy governors, city
secretary, city inspectorate and city administrations office. The
board is the only agency which has the power to nominate a
candidate.

Kahfi explained that the planned replacements were part of a
routine exercise conducted to fulfill the organizational needs of
the city administration.

"We have to anticipate further development. As you know there
will be the implementation of regional autonomy soon and many of
our employees will enter retirement so we have to arrange for
their replacement," he said adding only that a formal
announcement will be made in the near future as soon as the
nominees are approved by the governor and city council.

"The result of the meeting today, will be presented to the
governor and will be discussed with the city council afterwards.
But it will be in the near future," he said.

Ahead of the planned implementation of regional autonomy next
year, the city administration is also preparing for a revamp of
the administration structure, including the possibility of
merging several agencies or offices inside the administration.

Kahfi confirmed that some agencies such as the socio-political
directorate will be eliminated from the administration's
structure as these functions should be handled by the home
ministry or city police.(dja)