Indonesia to launch new civil state apparatus remuneration scheme

The Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform of Indonesia is planning to launch the new civil state apparatus (ASN) remuneration scheme in 2025.
Indonesia to launch new civil state apparatus remuneration scheme ảnh 1Indonesian people shop at a supermarket in Jakarta. (Photo: AFP/VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) - The Ministry of Administrative andBureaucratic Reform of Indonesia is planning to launch the new civil stateapparatus (ASN) remuneration scheme in 2025.

Yudi Wicaksono, Acting Assistant Deputy of Talent Management andHuman Resource Development of the ministry, said on November 22 that the newremuneration scheme still awaits the Government’s issuance of a regulation onthe ASN Law implementation.

The regulation will be drafted six months after the ASN Law’sentry into force, or in April 2024, he noted, adding that the ministry hopesthat the new payroll system could be implemented after the launch of theregulation.

The trial for the new ASN remuneration scheme will start at theend of 2024 while the simulation stage is expected to finish this year.

The official expressed his hope that when the regulation on theASN Law implementation is finalised in April 2024, the ASN remuneration schemewill be ready to be implemented in 2025.

However, he noted this target could only be realised if everythinggoes according to plan, and that the new ASN payroll is still being calculatedby the Finance Ministry so that the new remuneration will not burden the state andlocal budgets.

On September 11, Indonesian Minister of National DevelopmentPlanning Suharso Monoarfa said ASN remuneration reform is one of the agenda prioritiesin 2024./.
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