YEKA Hendra Fatika, a member of the Indonesian Ombudsman, has a grim outlook on the fate of employees at his institution this year. “It feels like getting paid for nothing. We come to work but just sit around. Unproductive,” he said on Friday, February 7, 2025. The cause is not laziness but the Ombudsman’s budget cut from Rp255.59 billion (around US$15.7 million) to Rp103 billion (US$6.3 million), a reduction of 59.7 percen