Council seeks probe into overseas trip

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