Cost to be a teacher

Cost to be a teacher

From Kompas

As in the New Order period, graft practices continue to
prevail in the recruitment of teachers, school principals and
other civil servants throughout Indonesia.

The selection of teachers as government employees in Cirebon
and the surrounding regency during 2000/2001 is an example. The
recruitment committee demanded between Rp 20 million and Rp 35
million, depending on the position, without issuing receipts.
Those who could or would not pay do not gain civil servant status
and just earn honorariums.

We are of course deeply concerned about the morals of the
authorities who exploit ordinary citizens. Though this
irregularity is legally difficult to prove, it is public
knowledge. Let us hope the bureaucrats involved will be conscious
of their misconduct and repentant.

A. ISKANDAR
Jakarta