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)