Civil servants to sign contract

BANJARMASIN, South Kalimantan: State Minister for Administrative Reform Taufik Effendi said he was preparing performance contract for each civil servant and government official to sign.

"The contract serves as a measure to control the way the state apparatus carries out its jobs and responsibilities," Taufik said on his visit here on Tuesday.

The contract would require all civil servants and government officials to fight corruption, collusion and nepotism and improve their services for the public, he said.

There are about five million civil servants, with half of that number teachers. -- Antara