Civil servants told to come clean

Civil servants told to come clean

JAKARTA (JP): City administration employees active in
political parties, including the ruling Golkar, were urged on
Tuesday to inform the city employee affairs bureau as soon as
possible.

Agus Syarifudin, head of the employee regulations subdivision,
said hundreds of the 70,880 civil servants in the administration
were active as executives in Golkar's Jakarta chapter.

Chapter 7 of Government Regulation No. 12/1999, signed into
law by President B.J. Habibie on Jan. 29, stipulates that civil
servants involved in political parties must notify the bureau and
ask permission from their superiors to relinquish their duties.

"If they do not do so within three months, they will be
dishonorably discharged," Agus said.

He said notification letters on the matter would be issued
within two weeks to all employees.

He said civil servants who are members of parties would lose
their positions in the bureaucracy, but would be entitled to
monetary compensation equal to one year's salary.

"This is in accordance with chapter 8 of the new regulation,"
Agus said. (ylt)