JAKARTA - Minister of Public Works (PU) Dody Hanggodo spoke out about the change in the flow of licensing applications for annual leave permits and sick leave permits which must be approved by him.
Dody said that this step was taken because he found many suspected permits and false sick letters in the PU Ministry environment.
Therefore, the permit which was previously under his supervision, then he changed it to an approval from him.
According to Dody, the approval that has been carried out has been too fast.
With his direct approval, he can assign his subordinates to check the truth of the sick letter.
This process has only been going on for about three months.
"So I, why, feel that something is wrong. There is a feeling that something is wrong, loh. If we drive a car, we think it's too fast, right, we have to pull the brakes first. I pulled the brakes so that everyone ran to me. If everyone runs to me, I can check it. It turns out that many permits are wrong," Dody told reporters when met at his office, Wednesday, July 22.
"The false permission means a fake sick letter, what kind of letter is fake. If the goods fall to me, right, I can order Irjen to check. But if the process is below, right, I don't know," he continued.
Even so, Dody emphasized that the policy was only temporary. If the licensing management had returned to order, the authority to approve leave would be returned to the original mechanism.
"That's why this is a temporary process. Later, if it's really arranged again, I'll go back to the beginning," he said.
When asked further about the policy potentially burdening him in carrying out his duties as Minister of PU, Dody admitted that the policy did add to his workload as a minister.
However, according to Dody, this step is necessary to build the integrity of the civil servant apparatus (ASN) in the PU Ministry.
The reason, he said, is that the PU Ministry has worked on many projects with a fairly large value, so honesty is needed.
"This is in order for me to form more qualified, more integrated, more moral ASN of the PU Ministry, who always have God in their hearts. Don't forget, loh, (the Ministry) PU manages hundreds of trillion of people's money every year," he added.
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