Jockeying at civil servant entrance test

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: The civil servant enrollment test (CPNS) in Makassar, South Sulawesi on Saturday was marred by the presence of a test jockey.

The jockey, Fit, 24, a private university student in Makassar, attempted to enter the hall to sit the test at the Ammannagappa junior high school but was found by Suhardiman, a test supervisor. The student was discovered when the test supervior became suspicious as the photograph on the identity card for the test did not match that of the jockey.

"When I asked her about it, she replied while bowing, without showing her face. I became suspicious and eventually asked her to show her identity card, but she said she had none. After questioning her in detail, she then admitted she was not the owner of the test identity card," Suhardiman said.

Fit denied she was a jockey, on the grounds that she was not being paid but only sitting in for her cousin, Amriani, who could not sit for the test because she was suffering from depression. - JP