School teachers demoted

School teachers demoted

YOGYAKARTA (JP): Ninety-five state primary and high school teachers have been demoted for trying to circumvent procedures to obtain promotion, an official said.

The head of the Yogyakarta office of the Civil Servants' Administrative Board, Soetrisno, said the 95 teachers were found to have forged their promotion recommendation documents.

The police have arrested three men believed to have been involved in the scam, Soetrisno told Antara.

A number of the demoted teachers said they paid brokers Rp 100,000 each to secure the documents.

"Some of our colleagues succeeded in getting the promotion. So we followed," a teacher in the Sleman regency said.

Soetrisno was disheartened that the teachers used an illegal short cut to get a promotion. He pointed out that they are automatically promoted every two years. (emb)