Jayapura back to six-day public service

JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya: As of Jan. 1, 2001, the Jayapura municipal administration returned to a six-day work week to improve its service to the public.

Jayapura Mayor M.R. Kambu said the decision was made after finding a slight fall in the quality of public service over the last three years.

"The former five-day work week is not effective because the productivity of the city administration's employees could not be maintained," he said.

"The five-days of work were not effective because most employees used Fridays for sports and then went home," he added here Friday. "The effective days were only Monday through Thursday."

He warned that he would take strict action against employees caught violating the new policy.

According to Antara's monitoring, many employees have yet to go back to their work place because of the recent Christmas and New year celebrations. --Antara