JAKARTA: Dozens of mayors from Indonesia's eastern regions lodged complaints with Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Tuesday over their inability to build infrastructure in their respective mayoralties.
The mayors said this was because only a small portion of officials were willing to be appointed as leaders of infrastructure projects.
"Only a very small number of people are willing to be project leaders ... and as a result, numerous infrastructure projects in the regions have been put on hold," All-Indonesia Association of Mayoralties chairman Jusuf Serang Kasim told a meeting with Kalla at the Vice Presidential Palace.
Jusuf, also mayor of Tarakan in East Kalimantan, said the officials' reluctance to be appointed project leaders was the result of the many police and AGO investigations into government officials over corruption allegations.
"Their reluctance has also been triggered by the current law which allows for the questioning of government officials in the absence of their superiors' approval. Therefore, we propose the establishment of a memorandum between the Home Ministry, the National Police and the AGO that will require the superiors' approval prior to questioning the officials."
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