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Roll Call Unfair, Cry Absentee Legislators
Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho | July 29, 2010

Representatives have claimed that measures taken to make them attend plenary sessions are "unfair Representatives have claimed that measures taken to make them attend plenary sessions are "unfair'. (Antara Photo/Widodo S Jusuf)
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landreaumax
11:50am Jul 30, 2010

boohoo... go find your momma and cry like a baby.. oh.. don't forget to pack your belonging at the office. oh.. and don't come back.

ronyboy
8:46am Jul 30, 2010

they are a bunch of jokers

Herdi N
2:25pm Jul 29, 2010

When I accept a role in my job as 'something', the expectation is simple: My boss wants me to finish the job ! PERIOD !. He won't care about how much I struggle to meet the deadlines, only the result matters !

Same applies here, these people are lawmakers..they should know the risk of being one. Stop whining and create something useful ! If I have these kind of people as my subordinates, I wouldn't hesitate to fire them at once.

I guess Asoegenie is right, they are just shameless.

peroblanco
1:37pm Jul 29, 2010

Name 'em, shame 'em! Go on, we're all out for blood!

Asoegenie
11:04am Jul 29, 2010

Absentee legislators: listen, if you had any honor and any understanding of ethics at all you should immediately resign. Shame on you, wasting the people's money. But most of you have no feelings of shame left ...right?

<b>Jakarta.</b> Session-skipping lawmakers on Wednesday reacted with anger to the House of Representatives secretariat’s move to reveal their poor attendance records.

“The House secretariat released unconfirmed data, which is very harmful because once they get it wrong, any party could sue them for defamation,” the Golkar Party’s Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita said, adding that the data on his absences was incorrect.

Earlier this week, the secretariat released information showing that none of the nine parties in the House has ever had all of its lawmakers in attendance at a plenary session.

The House Ethics panel threatened to discipline the truants and the public reaction has been sharply critical.

The data showed that dozens of lawmakers skipped plenary sessions, with 12 of them ducking out of three or more sessions.

Ratu Munawaroh from the National Mandate Party (PAN) missed 10 plenary sessions. Democrat Nurcahyo Anggoro was not present for eight.

The data also said Jeffrie Geovani from Golkar skipped six sessions, while his party comrades Agus and Ibnu Muzir missed four each.

“I have permits from the party to skip plenary sessions because I have work to do,” Agus said, showing a permission letter issued by the party.

He acknowledged there were lazy lawmakers who were truant for no good reason, but insisted he was not one of them.

Other lawmakers said the report was unfair because it measured only attendance at plenary meetings. Akbar Faisal from the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura), who missed six sessions, said he had good reasons for his absences.

“I worked on the Bank Century scandal. I had meetings until 2 a.m. sometimes. I was very tired so I couldn’t make it to the plenary sessions,” he said.

He said the House should have a mechanism other than attendance reports to assess lawmakers. “The most crucial [work] is in the commissions,” he said.

House energy chairman Abdul Kadir Karding from the National Awakening Party (PKB), who skipped four plenary sessions, said accusing him of being lazy was unfair because his contribution to the commission was being ignored.

“I am a commission chairman, I always lead meetings in my commission,” he said.

Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum said attendance was part of a lawmaker’s responsibility, and that his party pushes its members to show up.

“I often tell our members that many cadres with a better spirit stand ready to replace them as lawmakers,” Anas said.

He called on all parties to be stricter with their members.