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Lion Air to tighten recruitment process

Recruitment drive: Workers prepare a Lion Air aircraft parked on the runway at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang in August

Ayomi Amindoni (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Wed, January 6, 2016

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Lion Air to tighten recruitment process

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span class="inline inline-center">Recruitment drive: Workers prepare a Lion Air aircraft parked on the runway at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang in August. Low-cost carrier Lion Air said on Wednesday it would tighten recruitment process outsourcing in the wake of the arrest of four of its employees on suspicious of stealing items from passengers'€™ luggage. (kompas.com/YogaSukmana)

Indonesia'€™s largest low-cost carrier, Lion Air, is set to tighten its recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) following the arrest of four Lion Air employees on suspicion of stealing passengers'€™ possessions from luggage, a company official has said.

'€œWe will look more closely at their backgrounds and carry out psychological tests to gauge their personalities. There are many options,'€ Lion Air public relations manager Andy Saladin told thejakartapost.com in Jakarta on Wednesday.

He confirmed that four alleged thieves arrested by the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Police were Lion Air baggage handlers and airline security officers, adding that the four had all been outsourced employees and had now been fired.

'€œThey were dismissed as soon as the police arrested them,'€ Andy said.

In recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), a company or organization contracts the recruitment processes of its employees to a third-party service provider.

Andy said Lion Air would cooperate with all airport stakeholders to prevent similar incidents from happening again in the future, and had enhanced security measures by multiplying CCTV cameras at the airport, among other measures.

"In our employee recruitment process, we require candidates to obtain a police clearance letter [SKCK]. Even so, there have been crimes committed. It is the job of all stakeholders to improve security at airports,'€ he said.

Earlier, Soekarto-Hatta International Airport Police arrested two Lion Air airline security officers and a baggage handler after noticing them rifling through baggage on CCTV footage recorded on Nov. 16. Investigation of the three men revealed that they had worked together to steal passengers' belongings. The police arrested a third baggage handler in Kalideres, West Jakarta, on Monday.

State airport operator PT Angkasa Pura (AP) II said it would tighten the security of passengers' luggage following the incident by installing more CCTV in areas throughout the airport. (ebf)

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