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Ahok to reduce number of civil servants by half
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City administration civil servants attend a ceremony in Jakarta. Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama said on Thursday that he would downsize the number of civil servants by half to make spending more efficient. (Tempo.co/-)
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akarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama has said he will reduce the number of civil servants by half in an effort to improve efficiency in the city’s administration.
The current number of civil servants is 32,784 teachers and 39,913 people working in other services.
"There are many civil servants who do not work optimally. You can go to the mayor offices and you can see many civil servants who just read the newspaper or hang out in cafés," Ahok said at City Hall on Thursday.
Therefore, he said, the moratorium on the recruitment of civil servants (particularly non-teachers and non-health workers) would remain in place until 2018. He added that he preferred to optimize the performance of existing civil servants rather than recruit new ones.
Currently, the administration is assessing its employees’ performance with Key Performance Indicators (KPI), a business metric used to evaluate factors that are crucial to the success of an organization.
The administration would use the system to monitor the effectiveness of each employee, dismissing the those found to be corrupt or displaying a poor performance, said Ahok. (bbn)
