senior official at the Higher Education, Science and Technology Ministry confirmed that the recent protest against minister Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro regarding the allegedly abrupt dismissal of a civil servant in the institution had been resolved and that all related parties have met and mutually “forgiven each other”.
Higher Education, Science and Technology Ministry secretary-general Togar M Simatupang explained that Minister Satryo had welcomed to his residence on Monday evening some representatives of the employee association, along with Neni Herlina who previously claimed that she was removed from her job as a public relations official after 24 years of serving at the ministry.
“They reconciled all the disagreements and eventually forgave each other,” Togar said on Tuesday, as quoted by tribunnews.com.
As previously reported, hundreds of employees from the ministry staged a protest in front of its office in Jakarta against what they described as unfair treatment by Satryo. The protests were apparently triggered by the sudden dismissal of Neni Herlina days prior.
Satryo, however, denied that any employee dismissal had taken place. Instead, he called it a case of “reassignment and rotation”, regarded as a routine practice within an agency or ministry to improve its performance.
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"To clarify, and as I have already explained to the individual concerned, the ministry has never dismissed anyone. What happens is that the government, or the ministry, conducts reassignments or rotations—something that is entirely common within any institution, whether governmental or nongovernmental," he said, as quoted by Antara.
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