Jakarta City Councilors are asking for private assistants to help them handle their heavy workload.
“Financially, Jakarta can provide personal assistant for each council leader and member,” Hanura Party councilor said Syarifuddin on Thursday during a plenary meeting to discuss a draft bylaw on the financial rights and administration of city councilors.
Every faction at the City Council asked for expert teams, using the 2017 Government Regulation No. 18 on financial authority and the administration of leaders and members of regional councils as the basis of their request, kompas.com reported.
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) said it wanted to add three more experts to its working department.
The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) proposed that the number of experts be based on the councilors’ workload, given that they are not represented in each municipality and regency.
Meanwhile, the National Awakening Party (PKB) suggested that each councilor be assisted by one expert and each faction by five experts.
It was previously reported that the City Council was racing against the clock to deliberate a draft bylaw that could give its councilors a 20 percent increase in salary.
City Council leaders are now paid more than Rp 95 million (US$7,125) per month, while City Council members receive around Rp 75 million per month.
The council has only passed two out of 32 draft bylaws listed in this year’s city legislation program (prolegda), prompting criticisms of poor performance. (cal)
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