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