Payments extorted from civil servants

Payments extorted from civil servants

PEKANBARU: A number of officials at the Riau Religious Affairs
Office (KUA) are under suspicion for demanding "fees" from newly
appointed civil servants who recently passed selection tests.

The fees were allegedly demanded when the new civil servants
were arranging for their official letters of appointment at the
Pekanbaru and Indragiri Hulu offices of the KUA.

The new civil servants had to pay Rp 300,000 in Pekanbaru,
while a larger amount of Rp 1 million was reportedly demanded by
the Indragiri Hulu office.

"They said the money was for arranging their letters of
appointment," a newly appointed civil servant at the Indragiri
Hulu KUA, who declined to give his name, said on Tuesday.

Separately, head of the Riau Religious Affairs Office, Abdul
Gaffar, said on Tuesday that he had heard about the matter and
would look into it. --JP