Civil servants and discipline

Civil servants and discipline

Military discipline is admittedly tighter than civil servants'
discipline. In this relation the Minister of Administrative
Reforms, T.B. Silalahi, opines that civil servants' discipline
needs to be enhanced.

In his keynote speech before a seminar held by the Association
of the Indonesian Indigenous Entrepreneurs (HIPPI), Minister
Silalahi emphasized that military discipline should be imposed on
civil servants.

To date many civil servants tend to violate the official
office hours. They arrive at the office late and leave early. No
sanction is given for the undisciplined employees. Another
phenomenon is that many civil servants are found to be idling
rather than doing their jobs. This is not to say that all civil
servants, 4.9 million altogether, are not working properly. But
this gives the impression that the civil servants are no other
than disguised unemployed.

To apply military discipline in the civil servants' domain is
highly necessary if national development is to progress in the
manner we desire.

-- Suara Pembaruan, Jakarta