Yahoo – AFP,
July 13, 2013
Indonesian province bans female secretaries |
GORONTALO,
Indonesia (AFP) - The governor of an Indonesian province on Saturday said he
had ordered his top staff to replace their female secretaries with men following
a string of extra-marital affairs.
"I
received inputs that many government office heads here are involved in
extra-marital affairs with their female secretaries," Rusli Habibie, the
governor of Gorontalo province on northern Sulawesi island told AFP.
"They
treat them much better than their own wives. They bring them presents from
official trips like perfumes or branded bags while their poor wives get
nothing," he said.
"For
these reasons, I ordered them to replace their female secretaries with male
assistants or with old women who are no longer attractive," he added.
Habibie is
convinced that his subordinates will follow his instructions, though there
won't be any punishment for those who don't comply.
"This
is a moral sanction. I'm pretty sure they will follow my order, and all of them
will get a male secretary soon," he said, adding that there were about 50
senior officials in the province who had hired female secretaries.
Last year,
the Gorontalo administration demanded 3,200 male civil servants to transfer
their monthly pay to their wives' bank accounts in order to limit the number of
affairs.
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