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