Honorary Employees Continue to Struggle to Become ASN PPPK

PPPK ASN selection opportunities still leave problems because there are still many honorary employees who take part in the selection but do not pass, while there are still many vacant formations.

The following article was translated using both Microsoft Azure Open AI and Google Translation AI.

FAKHRI FADLURROHMAN

Action masses from village officials across Indonesia staged a protest in front of the DPR building, Jakarta on Wednesday (25/1/2023). The demands of the protesters include village officials being appointed as civil servants or government employees with a job agreement (PPPK).

JAKARTA, KOMPAS - The appointment of civil servants with a government employee with a work agreement or ASN PPPK status provides an opportunity for honorary workers in various government agencies to have a clear employment status. However, there are still many honorary workers, both functional and technical, who are still struggling to become ASN PPPK because they did not pass the threshold value when participating in the selection.

The Indonesian Technical Workforce Association (PTTI) is committed to monitoring and supporting the steps that will be taken by the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (Kemenpan and RB) and the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) in relation to the phenomenon of mass disqualification in the technical PPPK selection process in 2022. This was conveyed by the Chairman of PTTI, Mochamad Ginanjar Riana, on Friday (June 16th, 2023).

PTTI currently has more than 5,000 honorary technical staff members from ministries/agencies/local governments who have participated in the 2022 PPPK technical staff selection. However, they did not pass the passing grade (PG).

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Ginanjar stated that PTTI is continuing to conduct a study regarding concrete steps in overseeing the reformulation plan prepared by the government. Last week, PTTI representatives met directly with Menpan and RB Abdullah Azwar Anas and Acting Head of BKN Bima Haria Wibisana in an agenda for a hearing with Commission II of DPR.

According to Ginanjar, although Menpan and RB have issued a statement that the results of the selection of PPPK technical civil servants for 2022 are still being reviewed and the policy will be issued, PTTI will continue to monitor the policy plan at all levels so that the reformulation policy can be issued immediately and be fair for everyone.

"The results of the meeting and statement from Menpan and RB have become our material to continue to monitor this policy plan, both to the legislative and governing agencies, to ensure transparency to the public," said Ginanjar.

PTTI hopes that the government remains committed to completing the reformulation and issuing a reformulation policy for the recruitment of technical PPPK civil servants in 2022, and then continuing to improve the resolution of the problem of honorary workers in Indonesia. PTTI hopes that there will be a policy of ranking systems and a reduction in the minimum passing grade to around 15-20 percent.

"We request that the reformulation issued by the government can involve all parties so that there are no vacant positions that can disrupt government service activities in each region," said Deputy Coordinator of PTTI Muhammad Lutfi."

DOKUMENTASI PPTI

The graduation data for technical selection participants of PPPK ASN in various ministries/agencies in 2022.

According to the latest data compiled by PTTI, only 31.76 percent of the announced positions for ministries and institutions have been filled. Meanwhile, at the provincial level, it reached 39.45 percent.

“There are many vacant formations, both from the private sector and the government, even though they have experience. The government has opened formations, but it cannot be fulfilled every year because of the unfair selection method for participants," said Secretary General of PTTI Fikri Ardiyansyah.

Keep recruiting ASN

Previously, Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform, Abdullah Azwar Anas, stated that the government is preparing a plan to recruit more than 1 million new civil servant candidates for the year 2023. About 80% of the quota will be allocated for the new civil servant candidate formation, while the remaining 20% will be for the civil servant formation. The quota is determined based on proposals from ministries/agencies and local governments.

"There is a complaint from recent graduates that they also want to serve the nation and country. Therefore, we are preparing formations and continuing to study further related to digital talent. Because if digitalization is implemented in the area, technicians should not need to be recruited continuously," said Azwar.

KOMPAS/RIZA FATHONI

A number of contract teachers who are government employees with work agreements (PPPK) staged a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Education and Culture Research and Technology Building, Jakarta, on Friday (10/3/2023).

Separately, in a joint working meeting with Commission X DPR, Deputy for Human Resources for Apparatus of the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform, Alex Denni, said that the recruitment of health workers and teachers was still prioritized and opened to meet basic service needs. As for technical personnel, there is a zero growth policy, according to needs. The priority is especially for technical personnel in the digital field.

"In solving the problem of honorary workers who still exist through PPPK selection, we are reminded that there should be no mass layoffs (termination of employment), as well as better welfare guarantees," said Alex.

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