Foreign Consultants
No more foreign consultants should be hired by government agencies.
Vice-president Jusuf Kalla advised all government ministries and agencies to no longer employ foreign experts and consultants, in order that Indonesia learn to develop and move forward under its own steam.
Jusuf Kalla.
Speaking at the opening of the 2007 National Technology Meeting in Serpong, Banten, he said:
If we keep asking for foreign help then let’s just abolish the ministry of Research and Technology. Aren’t you professors and doctors ashamed if everything depends on foreigners and you only serve foreigners?
Kalla also criticised the luxurious lifestyles of high public servants, as to be seen in the expensive cars they are driven around in. The country would advance via hard work, he said, not by those who are supposed to be advancing it living the high life. [1]
