Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The government is currently designing a plan to change the status of honorary employees to Government Employees with a Work Agreement (PPPK). The strategy that will be implemented is to gradually recruit honorary staff through selection from the State Civil Service.
“That is a grand strategy, a blueprint for solving this problem,” said Deputy for Human Resources for Apparatus at the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform Alex Denni in a discussion at the DPR RI Building, Tuesday (31/10/2023).
As is known, currently there are around 2.3 million honorary workers who are still waiting for certainty to be appointed as government employees. The new ASN Law passed by the DPR states that the elimination of the status of honorary workers is postponed until December 2024, from November 2023.
During that time, recruitment of honorary staff is no longer permitted. The government must devise a way to save millions of honorary workers from mass dismissal. The government’s methods will later be included in a Government Regulation which is targeted to be completed by the end of this year.
Alex Denni explained why the number of honorary staff could increase. He gave the example that initially there was a new school that lacked teachers. To fill this shortfall, honorary staff were recruited while waiting for the opening of the ASN selection which was only carried out during a certain period.
When the selection is carried out, the honorary staff actually also follow the process. It’s just that they didn’t graduate. In this way, honorary staff remain in their positions, while the available formations are filled by other people. “Honorary friends can pass the passing grade, but lose the ranking,” said Alex Denni.
He said that the government had actually tried a number of ways to help these honorary workers. For example, by lowering the graduation limit. However, this strategy actually caused the quality of ASN human resources to decline. “Our aggregate quality is down,” said Alex.
Last year, he said, the government tried a new method, namely opening special needs formations. This special formation is a selection that can only be applied by health workers, teachers and non-ASN technical personnel. Alex explained that the number of special needs formations was set at 80%, while 20% could be attended by new candidates. “Don’t compete with new people, first compete with honorary friends,” he said.
Alex Denni said that the 80% portion would certainly not be maintained forever. This portion will slowly be reduced as the number of honorary staff decreases. He said that in this way, the honorary staff would slowly be absorbed and change their status to PPPK.
“From year to year we continue to reduce the ratio. Slowly we update it to 70-30%, 60-40%, 50-50%, until this is all finished,” he said.
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