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(Most) Desks Occupied After Idul Fitri Holiday
Dofa Fasila & Antara | September 05, 2011

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While many people are taking their time in returning to work, government offices were unusually full of civil servants on Monday, the first working day after the Idul Fitri holiday.

Given the usual spate of absences, officials have taken to issuing annual threats of sanctions to those who fail to report for duty. The threats finally seem to be working.

In Jakarta, officials claimed that a mere 16 of the city’s 80,846 employees were absent without reason — a huge drop from the 126 last year. This does not include the 512 still on leave, the 271 who said they were sick and the 110 others who had a permit not to come to work Monday.

Jakarta secretary Fadjar Pandjaitan said the 16 absentees would face a cut in their allowances and either a written or verbal warning. “The written warning will affect their future career,” he said.

In West Java, Governor Ahmad Heryawan boasted a 99 percent attendance rate in his office. “The level of attendance is very good at the Gedung Sate,” he said, referring to the popular name for the building that houses the provincial administration.

In Klaten, Central Java, attendance was 100 percent on Monday, the head of the local human resource office, Purwanto AC, was quoted by Antara as saying. A total of 13 teams were deployed to check attendance at the district government’s various offices, he said.

Mayor Itoc Tochija of Cimahi, West Java, said 10 percent of some 1,600 municipal employees failed to show up Monday.

“Those without clear reasons can face administration sanctions and salary cuts,” Itoc said without elaborating.

Still, the head of the city’s human resources office, Dantje Sunanda, said better discipline was achieved this year because of the implementation of an electronic fingerprint attendance system.

But in Tasikmalaya, West Java, district chief Ruzhnul Ulum tore up an attendance sheet at the zoning and settlement office after finding that many people whose signatures were on the paper were not actually present.

In Bangkalan, East Java, district chief Syafik Rofi’i ordered the human resources office to conduct an immediate check on all civil servants in the district after discovering that many desks remained empty when he conducted checks on several offices under his command.

Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto was the only administrative head the Jakarta Globe spoke to who said he could tolerate brief absences after Idul Fitri. “We are giving the opportunity for civil servants to not come to work for one or two days, but there should be a clear reason,” he said.

Meanwhile, the absence of prosecutors at a South Jakarta district court on Monday resulted in the postponement of the reading of the preliminary verdict in a case involving the sales of illegal iPads, the Detikcom online news portal said.
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