The Home Affairs Ministry has given Indonesian citizens until September 30 to apply for an e-KTP (electronic ID card) if they don’t already have one. As such, many people are rushing to civil registration offices around the country in order to acquire the all-important document.
You’d expect the civil servants who are serving e-KTP applicants to reciprocate and provide the best damned service they could during this important crunch time. But this was what greeted some citizens at the Coblong district office in Bandung, West Java recently:
Not only is this civil servant just idly standing around, he also appears to be quite intoxicated by the way he’s slurring his words. He also took a drag off of his cigarette (though it does appear to be unlit). No fucks given indeed.
Chandra Maretha, the person who uploaded the video to her Twitter account @chansayARDAN on Monday, told Kompas that she went to the Coblong district office with her mother to apply for e-KTPs. She was waiting in line when the aforementioned drunk civil servant stepped into the room.
“At first I wasn’t aware that he was drunk. I then realized [that he was drunk] because he was spouting nonsense and he smelled like red wine, and I saw that his eyes were red,” Chandra told Kompas.
She then discreetly recorded the video, making sure that the security guards didn’t notice her in case they made her delete the video. Unsurprisingly, not long after she posted the video on Twitter, it became a viral hit.
So viral, in fact, that Bandung Mayor Ridwan Kamil has instructed the Coblong district head to sanction the unnamed civil servant.
“Even if they’re not intoxicated they can’t be slow in serving citizens, but it’s much worse if the accusation that the civil servant was intoxicated at work is proven,” Ridwan Kamil said today, as quoted by Kompas.
Ridwan Kamil didn’t specify what sanctions await this civil servant should he be proven guilty of drinking and smoking during work hours at the expense of taxpayers.
Yet apparently, this wasn’t a one-off case for the civil servant.
“Some people went up to him, including a security guard there, who said, ‘just report him, he gets drunk so often at work, people here can’t be bothered to reprimand him anymore because he does it so often,’” Chandra said.
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