印尼省長下令禁僱女祕書防醜聞

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.據報道，印尼蘇拉威西島北部哥倫打洛省省長哈比比日前下令禁止其屬下高官僱傭女祕書，已經聘用的女性祕書則要換成男性祕書。

哈比比解釋說，目前很多政府高官卷入了婚外性醜聞，“這些官員對待情人比自己的妻子要好很多，在出訪外國後還會給情人帶香水或是名牌包等禮物，而家裏的糟糠之妻卻什麼也得不到”。

據悉，哥倫打洛省約一半官員僱傭了女祕書。雖然哈比比已經對外宣佈這一禁令，但是沒有出臺違反規定的懲罰措施。哈比比說：“違反者會在道德上受到制裁，不過我確定他們會執行我的禁令，有女祕書的很快會換成男性祕書。”

這並不是該省第一次出臺整治作風問題的措施。去年，哥倫打洛省政府還要求公務員向自己的妻子每月上交薪水。