Officials of Bali’s Department of Investment and License can kiss their high-up jobs goodbye now that they have reportedly been demoted en masse by Governor Made Mangku Pastika over a broken queue machine.
Face it, living in Indonesia, we are used to lines not really being a “thing.” Try to make a line at Indomaret and you’ll get butted by someone who just wants to buy their cigarettes or line up at Ngurah Rai Airport to get your tickets and you’ll face a blob instead of an orderly queue.
However, a queue machine that is supposed to make lines a bit more manageable for the Department of Investment and License has apparently been broken for three years and this is just not ok with Bali’s governor, according to the Bali Times.
It was nothing but harsh words from Pastika on the matter: Maybe not all the officials were in the wrong, but I have to replace all as all of them are “blind.” Everyday they could see the machine was not functioning, but there was no action, said Pastika on Friday in Denpasar, as quoted by the Bali Times.
The governor reportedly discovered the broken machine during a joint raid with the Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi of States Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucracy Reformation (MenpanRB).
If it happened for one or two days, I still can accept it, it might be under repair. But, they left it for three years, explained Pastika.
Based on reports, it sounds like the officials are not actually let go from the department, but will just be demoted to regular staff positions. Pastika says he hopes they will help out the new officials (aka the people now above them who they will hate for taking their jobs).
Bali’s head of Ombudsmen publicly stated his approval of Pastika’s move and invited the governor to raid other departments as well.
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