Civil servant number imbalance

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: State Minister for Administrative Reforms Feisal Tamin said on Tuesday that the number of civil servants between the western and eastern parts of Indonesia were unbalanced.

"There are only 555,648 civil servants in the eastern part of Indonesia, but there are over 2.4 million on Java alone," he said.

Feisal said that provinces in the eastern part of Indonesia had only demanded infrastructure development, and had never asked for an increase in the number of civil servants.

He pointed out that civil servants had always lacked professionalism, which had disappointed the public in the end because of the poor service they provided. He also emphasized on the need to simplify the bureaucracy for civil servants. -- JP