Post-Inauguration, Hundreds of Officials Undergo Urine Test

Hundreds of echelon-III and -IV officials who were inaugurated on Monday (5/18) morning straight to undergo a urine test in the City Hall's yard. It aims to know whether those indicated using drugs or not. 

If they are positively using drugs, they will be demoted

After the inauguration, Head of Prevention Division for Jakarta Narcotics National Agnecy (BNN), Sapari Partodiharjo directly announced the test result. Suddenly, the officials who have been disbanded and taken pictures with their family back to gather in front of the stage. 

The Jakarta BNN officiers then hand out the forms filled before the test. The echelon-III officials got the first turn to undergo the test before the echelon-IV officials. They seemed queuing for the test. 

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According to Agus Suradika, Head of Jakarta Employment Agency (BKD) stated the BNN was involved because he wanted to ensure whether those selected civil servants are healthy or not. "It shows that all officials are healthy," he disclosed. 

He reminded all officials not to leave. If they leave, they will be searched as they are already on the absence. "If they leave, we will pursue them. We have their list from BNN," he reminded. 

They furthered they will be demoted if they are proven using drugs. Considering, they should be a role model for citizens. Thus they should be clean. The test result will come out within 3-4 days ahead. "If they are positively using drugs, they will be demoted," he asserted.

Such sudden urine test had also been done in the previous inauguration towards thousands of officials on January 2, 2015. From the test, 13 officials were indicated using morphine.