Surabaya Mayor Appoints 1,400 Officials By End Of 2021

Mayor of Surabaya Eri Cahyadi/PHOTO VIA ANTARA

SURABAYA - Surabaya Mayor Eri Cahyadi inaugurated 1,400 Surabaya City Government officials, East Java, at the end of 2021.

"The mass inauguration was carried out due to changes in bureaucratic reform," said Mayor Eri Cahyadi after the inauguration at Taman Surya, Surabaya City Hall, quoted by Antara, Friday, December 31.

According to him, this inauguration, one of which is based on having to adjust the name change of the Regional Apparatus Organization (OPD) according to the new organizational structure and work procedure (SOTK) in early January 2022.

Mayor Eri said the changes in bureaucratic reform in question were first, there was a change in the nomenclature for echelon IV who became the coordinator, second, related to the reduction of initially four cations (Section Heads) in the sub-district, now to three.

In addition, Eri Cahyadi stated that this inauguration was also carried out because of the merger of a number of OPDs in accordance with the new SOTK. So that some officials, there are still serving as structural or vice versa.

"From here, it appears that there are those who continue to be structural and not. Because of these mergers (OPD)," he said.

The former Head of the Surabaya City Development Planning Agency (Bappeko) ensured that the officials who were inaugurated today were those who had high scores from the assessment test results.

"So those who have high marks in the assessment, until all positions are fulfilled," he said.

Because of that, Eri Cahyadi reiterated that the officials who had just been appointed were not because they were close to the mayor, but because they were competent according to the value of the assessment results.

"But I will make the value of the output work contract, the outcome will be signed. If it is not appropriate, then it must be stopped. I hope that the results of the assessment are appropriate in the field," he said.

Over the next one year, he continued, every municipal government official would sign a performance contract. The performance contract also states that if the official does not meet the output and outcome, he is obliged to resign

"If it is not appropriate, I hope that I will resign myself. There is no competition between OPDs. Because I removed (officials) from their positions because the outputs and outcomes did not match," he said.

In addition to implementing a performance contract, Mayor Eri Cahyadi also ensures that he will regularly rotate every 1, 2 or a maximum of every 3 years. For him, during that period, Civil Servants (PNS) within the Surabaya City Government must be rotated so that they can feel each other's OPD.

"In 2022 the needs of the people will definitely be greater. I gave an example, when I went down myself there were still people who didn't go to school, there were stunting meals. When the flood came, the lurah didn't come. I want with the same spirit that in 2022 there will be changes. Because we are servants," he said.

For this reason, he continued, in the future the output and outcome of the performance contract of each municipal government official will be submitted to the media in the hope that Surabaya residents will know and be able to monitor each other's performance.

According to him, the performance contract will start in the third week of January 2022. Then in the fourth week, each budget of all OPDs with their outputs will be submitted to the media.

"So that all the people of Surabaya will know the output and the outcome, can monitor and collect. With this I hope the officials are not busy looking left and right, feeling good, but officials are busy with what has been promised with the output and outcome," he said.