Elvan Dany Sutrisno – detikNews // translated by Rilyad

Jakarta - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), really did put high standards on his ministers’ candidates. If the ministers’ performance was perceived to be not [of] their maximal performance, they might be relieved of their positions.

“We already signed, if [in] three months it’s not maximal, the position may be relieved,” said a candidate for the minister of communication and informatics (Menkominfo) from PKS, Tifatul Sembiring, to reporters, after a MPR Paripurna conference inside the DPR building, Senayan, Jakarta on Monday (19/10/2009).

The same perspective was shown by the other ministers. Helmi Faizal Zaini, a minister candidate from PKB, sees this as a natural issue.

“We were invited, so I think it’s natural that there would be reward and punishment,” Helmy told the reporters by phone.

The leader of PAN DPR expressed that the signatures given by the ministers were part of the integrity pact. In his opinion, this is a control measure to ensure the quality of the ministers by SBY.

“All of the ministers’ candidates were required to sign the integrity pact, where it  was stated that if their [the ministers] work performance wasn’t optimum, the job might change,” (Note : There’s a bit of an ambiguity on the original article of whether the minister position itself would be changed, or the job-scope would be changed. I’m guessing here that it would be the minister position itself that would be changed. kerja could be very ambiguous at times) said Totok Daryanto, the vice-leader of PAN DPR who was confirmed by reporters in the PAN fraction room (Note: there’s a bit of a confusion because of detik’s sentence structure here).

Totok heard from one of the ministers’ candidates from PAN that there’s a target for each minister post. Everything have to be in an orderly manner according to what SBY wanted.

“There’s an achievement standards that is set by Mr. SBY. For example, in the economy sector, they would need to increase the economy growth by a certain amount,” elaborated Totok.

“There’s a phase that needs to be reached in every three months,” he added.

(van/gah)