FOR more than a decade, the government had been paying salaries and pensions to nearly 100,000 “fictitious” civil servants (PNS), the head of the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) revealed this week, exposing a gap in Indonesia’s recent push for digital transformation.
This discrepancy in the public records was unearthed in 2014, when BKN ordered an electronic self-census of the civil service apparatus, agency head Bima Haria Wibisana said on Monday.
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