Immigration officials meet at palace

Immigration officials meet at palace

JAKARTA: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono opened on Monday a
two-day meeting of immigration officials at the State Palace.

The meeting was attended by 240 officials from across the
country and abroad.

Minister of Justice and Human Rights Hamid Awaluddin said that
the participants would discuss standardizing services at the
office in a bid to improve its performance.

The President said that the government considered the office
played an important and strategic and asked the officials to
improve its performance.

He also told them to set up an electronic immigration system
to reduce direct contact between customers and officials in a bid
to prevent possible corruption. -- JP