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Gorontalo to Give Male Civil Servants' Pay to Their Wives
Rahmat | February 09, 2012

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DrDez
9:55am Feb 10, 2012

Pak

Yes I understand he did in about 1930

Serigala-Berbulu-Domba
8:02am Feb 10, 2012

One possibly unintended outcome, if this proposal is implemented, would be to identify the number of wives for each civil servant.


pakGuru
7:10am Feb 10, 2012

if im not wrong, henry ford applied the same concept to his factory workers, who after getting paid would spend it all on anything but buying food for the family.


BilboBaggins
9:18pm Feb 9, 2012

Dr Dez, you make a good point. Many husbands are totaly irrisponsible and need to be kept in line.

I don't believe that this is a valid way of doing it, although as you suggested maybe a percentage would be applicable.

Education and a moral balance would be a better solution, though not likely in Indonesia.

You are right padt, Indonesia is never short of a "good idea". ha ha

DrDez
7:34pm Feb 9, 2012

padt - a few years back we had a deputation of drivers wives (we had maybe 10 drivers then) who asked if their husbands pay could be divided and they were each paid 30%-50% (depending on how many kids they had)instead of him getting it all.

The picture painted was pretty dreadful by the wives, gambling, smoking, drinking, whoring, kids going hungry etc (true? well who can say)

We sought legal advice on this and found that what the governor has done here (which is what we had been petitioned to do) was actually illegal under the law.. However, it was permissible for a married man to have his wives wages... That was about 1995 I'm guessing, things may have changed


Makassar. Newly elected governor of Gorontalo Rusli Habibie has a fairly radical plan to ensure that the wives and children of civil servants don’t get the short shrift when it comes to their husbands’ salaries: deposit the men’s paychecks into their wives’ bank accounts.

The governor’s administration said the policy would be beneficial to families as a whole, and cut down on complaints from wives claiming that their husbands unfairly withheld money for household goods and food.

“The policy will be implemented next week, and take effect in March 2012,” Gorontalo administration spokesman Rudi Irawan said on Thursday.

The policy may be new for Gorontalo as a whole, but Rusli reportedly tried out a similar policy three years ago when he was serving as district head of North Gorontalo.

The program was created in response to “lots of complaints coming from the wives of male civil servants after not getting any money nor allowance from their husbands to buy daily staples,” Rudi said.

“Hopefully the policy will reduce such complaints, and once again, this is for the sake of the financial matter within families.” 

Rudi said that the idea has seen strong support from Gorontalo’s civil servants so far, with a small minority opposing the idea.

According to government data, 60 percent of Gorontalo’s civil servants are male, with 35 percent of that group being married.

Rudi said the policy would ensure that married couples had an equal stake in seeing their finances managed sensibly.

The administration is looking at different schemes to get civil servants’ wives to sign up for bank accounts and ensure that the funds are deposited into them.

“The related procedures are now being discussed with all parties, as well as with the banks,” Rudi added.