Job applicants to be drug-tested

TANGERANG: The Tangerang regency administration will impose a drug test on applicants for entry to the civil service.

"We will conduct the additional test on the candidates, because they should be declared clinically drug-free," regent Agus Djunara was quoted by his spokesman Maman Soetoyo as saying on Tuesday.

He said that candidates would have to take a urine test and a blood test, if necessary, to prove that they did not take drugs, Antara reported.

More than 5,600 people applied to become civil servants at the regency and 1,000 passed the test, which was conducted several weeks ago. The administration has 355 vacancies.

Maman said that the drug tests would be administered in cooperation with the local health agency. --JP