Civil servants can become councillors

JAKARTA: The General Elections Commission (KPU) ruled on Monday that active civil servants who were elected members of local legislative councils can be sworn in.

But before being installed, the councillors-elect must show three letters from their superiors stating that they were giving up their positions, a KPU statement said.

"The civil servants concerned have to submit three letters stating that, first, that they are in the process of quitting their positions, second, they are no longer on their offices' payrolls and, third, they are no longer active as civil servants," the statement said. -- JP