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Minister who bans use of state facilities for ‘mudik’ accused of doing just that
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Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly (right) chats with Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi (center) and the chairman of the General Elections Commission (KPU), Husni Kamil Manik (left), before a limited Cabinet meeting on revisions to the Regional Elections Law at the Presidential Office recently. (Antara/Widodo S. Jusuf)
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minister who banned civil servants from using state facilities for traveling during the Idul Fitri holiday known as mudik has denied using a security motorcade when he made a mudik trip to his hometown of Bandung.
“The security motorcade people had gone home on Friday. They were all off,” Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi said as quoted by kompas.com on Monday.
Yuddy said he was baffled about how people could make such an accusation. “How do people know that it was me [inside the car]? What’s my plate number? I don’t use my ministerial plate number,” he said.
Previously, a civil servant claimed that he saw Yuddy use his official car and be escorted by a security motorcade when he was traveling to Bandung on July 6. The minister admitted that he did go to Bandung using his official car, but insisted that there was nothing wrong with that.
He argued there was a difference between operational vehicles and official vehicles that are attached to the positions of the officials. “What I used was the official car that is attached to my position. I can use it for anything I want, including mudik and to take my family,” he said.
On June 29, Yuddy announced his decision to ban the use of state-owned operational cars for the Idul Fitri holiday by civil servants as the government had given them holiday allowances. (ary)
