Nuriana's progress report accepted

Nuriana's progress report accepted

BANDUNG, West Java: The West Java provincial legislative
council has decided to accept the progress report submitted by
outgoing governor R. Nuriana last week, amended with a note.

In a plenary session attended by the governor and other local
officials, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI
Perjuangan) and the National Awakening Party (PKB) factions
stated that they accepted the progress report -- with the
addition of a note saying that the government failed to carry out
development programs in certain areas in the province.

"We accept the governor's progress report with the addition of
several notes that require attention from the next governor,"
said Henda Suwenda of the PDI Perjuangan faction on Saturday.

For example, he said, Nuriana had failed to control the
administration from creating opportunity for corruption among
public officials.

The PKB faction said the supervisory board at the provincial
administration had yet to function optimally, so that many
development projects had incurred extraneous costs not covered in
the province's budget.

Nuriana's second term of office will end in June and the two
factions have nominated Tayo Tarmadi, former chief of the
Suliwangi Military Command, as a candidate to replace him. -- JP