"For the time being they were given a written reprimand. It would be up their offices concerned to follow it up," head of the city administration police, Khairul Saleh, said here on Thursday.
He said the sweep against especially Moslem civil servants found not fasting and eating in the day time was a direct instruction from the city mayor, Ahmad Kanedi.
"The mayor has ordered us to catch civil servants who are not fasting and he will also give those caught red-handed sanctions including demotion or a postponement of promotion," he said.
The four civil servants caught are not city employees, one of them RT is a non-Moslem employee of the local industry and trade ministry office, and therefore they will be referred to their offices concerned.
"They have all been released and we will send the written reprimands to their superiors for a follow up according to the existing policy. If they are city employees they will certainly be given a sanction by the mayor," he said.
He said the city police would continue conducting a sweep against civil servants found eating in food shops in the city until the end of Ramadhan.
He said civil servants are supposed to give an example to the public by not eating in public places if they are not fasting including non-Muslims.
(Uu.H-YH/HAJ/MF001)
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