All civil servants to be required to report wealth

Antara News, Wed, February 29 2012

 "the regulation would later affect not only first echelon employees and high ranking officials but civil servants at all levels."

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Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) - Administrative Reform Minister Azwar Abubakar said all civil servants would be required to report their wealth to anticipate the recurrence of cases of civil servants having huge bank accounts.

"We will extend the coverage of the regulation that requires civil servants to report their wealth to reach all," he said here on Wednesday after signing an integrity pact of working units in the Yogyakarta provincial administration.

He said the regulation would later affect not only first echelon employees and high ranking officials but civil servants at all levels.

"The policy of requiring all civil servants to report their wealth is aimed at supporting the program of bureaucratic reform launched by the government and made as an anticipatory measure against cases of huge accounts," he said.

The public has recently been once again shocked by the finding of another tax official having huge bank accounts. The public has earlier been shocked by former tax official Gayus Tambunan`s huge accounts in banks and wealth. Gayus has now been convicted of fraud.

Azwar Abubakar said a regulation to require not only echelon one official to report their wealth would be made, which would be put in a law.

"Their report could be sent directly to the inspectorate or the Corruption Eradication Commission. So, there will later be a yardstick and so those having an extraordinary account would be known," he said.

He said technically it will be regulated whether reporting would be done once in two or four years or when one is promoted.

Yogyakarta governor Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono hailed the idea which he considered in line with the integrity pact and could help prevent corruption including administrative corruption and corruption of work hours and in procurement and public services.

"That (the integrity pact) will serve as a deterrent against abuse of power. By signing the pact the officials concerned are committed to not abusing their power," he said.

Editor: Heru