Many office activities and public services in the city are expected to return to normal on Tuesday, three days after the end of the Idul Fitri holiday.
Bank Indonesia spokesman Diffy A. Johansyah said all banking services, including the Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) System, the inter-bank transfer system, would resume service Tuesday.
“Individual banks can have a policy to open as of [Monday], but the central bank has announced that the RTGS system will resume on Tuesday,” he told The Jakarta Post over the telephone Monday.
Diffy said all bank employees who did not take additional vacation were obliged to start work Tuesday after the end of Idul Fitri block leave, which started Thursday.
“There will a record made that will affect their performance appraisals if they play truant,” he said.
Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) spokesman Ardiansyah said that all BRI services would resume as normal on Tuesday.
Private companies and the government are also expected to resume business as usual on Tuesday.
State surveyor company PT Sucofindo spokesperson Adri Yandi said all activity at the company, which employs more than 5,000 employees nationally, would be back to normal as of Tuesday.
“Starting Tuesday, we will reinstate the three-in-one traffic policy.”
More than 38,000 civil servants who work for the Jakarta Administration are also expected to return work on Tuesday.
City Human Resources Agency (BKD) control division chief Slamet said Governor Fauzi Bowo previously told administration employees not to skip their first day back in the office because public services must return to normal at the end of the holidays.
“There will be random checks performed by city inspectors, as has been done in past years. Those who skip work will be sanctioned,” he said.
According to the BKD, the administration had suspended salary increases for 189 civil servants who were absent on the first day of work after the Idul Fitri holidays last year.
The police said that the three-in-one traffic regulation would again be enforced as traffic was expected to get busier as many people returned to the city at the end of the holiday.
“Starting [Tuesday], we will reinstate the three-in-one traffic policy,” City Police law enforcement division chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Johanson Ronald Simamora said, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
Authorities said Monday that the influx of people returning to the city from their home villages was expected to peak on Monday evening since Tuesday is the first day that most government and private offices would resume operations.
