FOR more than a decade, the government had been paying salaries and pensions to nearly 100,000 “fictitious” civil servants (PNS), the head of the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) revealed this week, exposing a gap in Indonesia’s recent push for digital transformation.
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Fifty-one employees with Indonesia’s anti-corruption commission will be fired after flunking a mandatory national loyalty test, the civil service announced, as critics accused the government of getting rid of capable graft busters and undermining the agency’s independence.
The decision to dismiss these Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) staffers followed weeks of controversy that swirled around the so-called National Outlook Test. They were required to pass it as their agency transitions to being run by the civil service, which will take over the KPK later this year, officials said.
The 51 were among 75 KPK employees who failed the test earlier this month, but the 51 failed on particular questions which they had to answer correctly and for which they would have no chance to retake the test, according to Bima Haria Wibisana, the head of the National Civil Service Agency (BKN).
Indonesia vows to purge civil service of extremists
At least 800,000 govt workers influenced by radical ideology, minister says
Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has issued a circular letter vowing to purge the Indonesian civil service of supporters of Islamic radical or terror groups. (Photo: Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry)
The Indonesian government says it aims to purge the country’s civil service of people who support or have links to Islamic hardline groups after revealing that hundreds of thousands of government employees have been influenced by radical ideology.
Many have already been arrested and that at least one had carried out a terrorist attack on a church, a government minister and Catholic Church official said.