Council seeks probe into overseas trip

TANGERANG: Calls made by the Tangerang Legislative Council and a number of non-governmental organizations for an investigation into a three-day overseas trip by six officials seem, all paid for by the taxpayer, appear likely to go unheeded.

The acting head of the municipality's supervisory agency, Hidayat, said on Tuesday that he had not received an instruction from Mayor Wahidin Halim to probe the recent trip to Singapore by the officials from the Tangerang Spatial Planning Agency.

No investigation into the civil servants can be held without the mayor's consent.

Council deputy speaker Herry Rumawatine said that council would soon summon the officials to seek an explanation.

"We are very concerned to hear that the officials spent taxpayers' money on the trip, but failed to perform anything of benefit to society," he said. -- JP