Among the replaced officials are City Parks and Cemeteries Agency head Ratna Diah Kurniati, who Ahok said had failed to carry out land acquisition for various projects, and Information and Technology Agency head Ii Karunia, who missed the target of installing 6,000 CCTV cameras in the capital.

Ratna was replaced by Djafar Muchlisin and Ii Kurnia was replaced by Dian Ekowati.

Ii admitted that he had been replaced over his failure to meet the target set by the governor: "This is probably because my working performance was not satisfying enough. There are targets I have failed to reach.”

The newly inaugurated civil servants include 12 officials in Echelon II positions, 95 in Echelon III positions and 406 officials in Echelon IV positions. The positions of the replaced officials range from agency heads (Echelon II) to subdistrict heads (Echelon IV).

Among the new Echelon II officials are Wahyu Hariadi, who replaced Rustan Effendi following the latter’s recent resignation, Dian Ekowati as head of the Communication, Information and Public Relation Agency and Benni Agus Chandra as head of the City Spatial Planning Agency.

Echelon II and Echelon III officials, respectively, are district and subdistrict heads, city officials that are in the front line in the city public services.

The governor admitted in the past that there were many inept officials in the city bureaucracy that needed to be replaced. (vps/bbn)