Government Cars Should Not Be Used

MINISTER of Bureaucratic Reform Yuddy Chrisnandi was noticeably perturbed after a meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla. Yuddy had just issued an instruction allowing officials to use government cars to go home for Lebaran, provided such officials lacked car of their own and paid for their own fuel. Kalla was not happy. "I used my own discretion on the matter, but later, since it was forbidden by the Vice President, I submitted," Yuddy said.

Yuddy, however, refused to retract the instruction outright. Instead, he entrusted the matter to the heads of local governments. In the end, district heads and city mayors crafted different policies.