Yogya to auction off official cars

Yogya to auction off official cars

YOGYAKARTA: In a bid to ensure transparency in the management of
government assets, the Yogyakarta provincial government will
organize an open auction to sell 82 used official vehicles next
week.

The auction is scheduled for Feb. 26. However, many people
have started to crowd the gubernatorial office compound since
Monday to take a close look at the vehicles on offer.

"We hope that with the auction, we will have a clean, fair and
transparent sale of used official assets so that surprising
happenings of the past will not recur in the future," said the
Yogyakarta governor, Sultan Hamengkubuwono X.

He was referring to corruption cases implicating former heads
of local government offices in connection with the sale of state
assets belonging to their offices.

The governor said that through the auction, the provincial
government would hopefully get better prices for the cars.

Vehicles to be auctioned are 44 minibuses, 20 jeeps, eight
pickups, eight sedans, one large bus and one large truck. --JP