BINTULU: All civil servants must be ready to move to different districts, ministries and even local councils, said Datuk Jack Aman Laut.
The Unit For Other Religions (UNIFOR) director said that a transfer or change in departments and roles provides experience and a new learning curve for every civil servant.
According to him, change in job roles will always be there, which may not be popular and that changing departments may be burdensome to some.
“There is also a stigma among civil servants that a transfer means the individuals have disciplinary problems,” he said at the Resident Bintulu Appreciation Ceremony at a prominent hotel here on Wednesday (Feb 15).
Reflecting on his five years of service as the Resident for Bintulu, Jack said that the experience of handling COVID-19 was his most challenging period.
“Our success in handling COVID-19 and making Bintulu a primary contributor of our state’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is the effort of all personnel, agencies and the community of Bintulu that always work together.
“We in Bintulu were the first to have a Vaccination Centre for private sectors which included plantation, oil and gas and factories in Samalaju,” he said.
Jack also said that the drastic development in Bintulu is due to the teamwork of the leaders and the people of Bintulu.
He hopes that the cooperation could continue to bring further development especially in the rural areas.
He said that there was not much competition to work in public sectors in Sarawak compared to his time as a deputy administrative officer (SAO) in 1984 at the Sri Aman Resident Office.
Jack previously served in Lubok Antu District Office, and then to Sebuyau before working in Kapit and in Pakan in 2000.
However, in 2007, Jack was stationed at the Land Ministry in Kuching before moving to Sri Aman district council and as Lubok Antu district officer followed by deputy Resident for Mukah before making a move to Bintulu as a Resident.
At the end of last year, he began his tenure as the UNIFOR director which would be his 10th station. For the record, Jack has held his post as Bintulu Resident for five years.
