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Stipend delays imperil studentsSept
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strong>Stipend delays imperil students
Sept. 10, p1
Hundreds of Indonesian students studying overseas are facing economic hardship and are at risk of being dismissed from their universities as the Directorate General of Higher Education (Dikti) at the Education and Culture Ministry is months late in disbursing tuition fees and living stipends to students on government scholarships.
Your comments:
The shocking part ' well, not that shocking ' is that the Dikti still does not acknowledge their faults. Instead, they are now blaming the supervisors for this mess.
The director general and the director should resign as soon as possible and the management of the scholarship should be handed over to the Educational Fund Management Instituition (LPDP) instead.
Yoga Ardhian
I am surprised you elaborate upon the true experiences. Actually, you are the appropriate fellows because you have passed the tight test for the scholarship itself. The tuition fee should have been well-organized. I do hope the government is sending you the money soon and the problem can be seen as a reflection to be better the next time.
Yan Hardiansyah
Still on fuel subsidies
Sept. 9, p8
The Jakarta Post has been flooded with comments about fuel subsidies and, still, I think the most obvious idea about how to solve the matter has not been raised. We already started to see the testing of different plans to curb fuel subsidies in Indonesia: quotas and territorial and hourly sales limitations. (By Zsolt Sagodi, Denpasar, Bali)
Your comments:
Check all the 100,000 government cars (with the red number plates) that are driven around the country packed with the families of the civil servants. Guess how many billions the government would save.
Sularia
That would be the logical, most efficient method to reduce subsidy dependency, but the House, Pertamina and all those involved don't think like normal, rational, educated people. It's all or nothing to them.
Deddy K.
Lack of ID on tenants' bank cards
Sept. 6, p9
Deputy Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama has once again been angered by his subordinates' failure to carry out his instructions.
His anger was triggered by the Housing and Administrative Building Agency's failure to distribute Bank DKI-issued ID cards to the residents of the Marunda low-cost apartments in North Jakarta.
Your comments:
Pak Ahok, you are not alone in your frustration, and I do believe the majority of sensible people in this republic support you.
If it is any consolation, the same deliberate sluggishness goes on in private companies. In my old company, we would regularly buy office equipment with our own money as the regular procurement process was painfully slow ' like a dull ache in the brain kind of painful.
Deedee S.
I am so with you on the common sense thing. I am amazed all the time how people try to justify their actions with specious arguments, along the lines of 'we skipped the doors to make it easier to enter the house'. I bet they tell Ahok 'this way we don't need to make new cards when the tenants move, they can just use the old ones', which is of course exactly what he wanted to prevent from happening.
Kantisini
