Insurance plan for councillors opposed

Insurance plan for councillors opposed

TANGERANG: Tangerang regency councillors have proposed
personal accident insurance for themselves in next year's regency
budget, but the community has come out against the proposal.

"The councillors have no need for the insurance, and they do
not have a strong argument in asking for it," said Mahrus,
chairman of the coastal community association, on Wednesday.

"The councillors' job is to improve the welfare of the people
and to create an administration that is free from collusion,
corruption and nepotism. They are not supposed to squeeze money
out of the people," Mahrus said.

Achmad Hidayat, chairman of the Tangerang branch of the
Indonesian National Youth Committee, echoed Mahrus.

"The councillors already enjoy luxury facilities from the
moment they wake up in the morning to when they go to bed at
night," he said.

Hidayat said it was not known whether the councillors had
already proposed to administration officials that they receive
accident insurance. -- JP