Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Restless employees of the soon-to-be-abolished National Population Agency (Baknas) are in fear of losing their civil service jobs.

October 9, 2001

Dwi Setyantono's zeal in working for Baknas is slowly ebbing. For the past two months, he's had difficulties concentrating. He's become restless, fearful, and uncertain since Feisal Tamin, the State Minister for the Empowerment of State Apparatus last mid-August announced his idea of dissolving Baknas and integrating it with the Ministry of Home Affairs. These feelings of disquiet have grown following the issuance of Presidential Decision No.103...

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