Seribu officials criticized

Seribu officials criticized

JAKARTA: City Council Commission A for administrative affairs
criticized Regent of Kepulauan Seribu Regency Kamil Abdul Kadir
and other officials for not occupying their official dwellings in
the regency.

"Commission A thinks that the facilities in the Kepulauan
Seribu regency are essential, but they have become useless, as
they are not used by the officials," commission spokesman Saleh
Rachman said here on Monday in a statement.

The statement was made at the City Council's plenary session
in response to Governor Sutiyoso's accountability speech for the
2001 budget.

The commission has said that the city administration has spent
Rp 1 billion on renting houses for the regent, the deputy regent,
the regency's secretary, the district heads, and on dormitories
for workers of the regency and district administrations.

The money was also allocated for renting offices for two
district heads in the regency, as well as for buying equipment
for the office and other rented houses.--JP