Sleman needs more officials

Sleman needs more officials

YOGYAKARTA: More autonomy means more work for the Sleman regency administration, which says it needs between 12,000 and 14,000 new staff to cope with the additional load work.

"We need them to handle services ...in 22 agencies in charge of 235 affairs," said Sleman Regent Arifin Ilyas yesterday, as quoted by Antara.

Sleman is one of 26 regencies in Indonesia selected by the government for a two-year trial run of the regional autonomy project launched last month.

Previously, the administration's 2,205 personnel handled only 80 different affairs in five agencies.

Arifin said another major problem was funding, given that the regency administration was still relying on contributions from the Yogyakarta provincial government. (anr)