Civil service hiring criticized

Civil service hiring criticized

JAKARTA: Lack of transparency in the civil service recruitment
process has given rise to widespread concern, a junior minister
says.

State Minister for Administrative Reform Taufik Effendi told
House of Representatives legislators on Tuesday that his office
had received 358 complaints from the public, 242 of which were
related to civil service hiring.

Besides complaining about a lack of transparency in the
process, the public were also concerned about bribery during a
recent intake of new civil service, he added.

Other complaints included the paying of bribes to win
promotion in government offices and fraud committed by labor
export firms, he said.

Taufik said 22 percent of the public complaints had been shown
to be justified. -- JP