Lecturer appointed deputy minister

Lecturer appointed deputy minister

JAKARTA: A political analyst from the University of Indonesia Maswadi Rauf was sworn in as deputy state minister for administrative affairs in charge of the state apparatus empowerment program on Friday.

State Minister for Administrative Affairs Feisal Tamin said that Maswadi was chosen because of his intellectual competence.

Feisal also installed Sunaryo as deputy state minister for administrative affairs in charge of human resources, and Hardijanto as new chief of the National Administrative Body (BKN), replacing Sunarti who is retiring.

Feisal said that efforts to build the state apparatus continued to face challenges, hence the need for proper guidance.

"Such guidance is also necessary to maintain the neutrality of the state apparatus," he added.

The implementation of Law No. 22/1999 on regional autonomy and Law No. 25/1999 on revenue sharing between the central and provincial governments, he said, has been overdone and it is feared that this might divide civil servants.

Thus, he said, some government regulations on guidance for the state apparatus will be revised. --Antara