Incentive For Liquid COVID-19 Medical Workers Next Week

JAKARTA - The Provincial Government (Pemprov) of DKI Jakarta through the Regional Financial Management Agency (BPKD) has promised to pay off incentive payments for medical personnel who have been late for the last five months. Repayment of the incentive funds will be made next week.

"Monday, August 24, it can be disbursed," said Head of BPKD DKI Jakarta, Edi Sumantri on Thursday, August 20.

The delay in repaying incentive funds for health workers is because the budget received from the Central Government is not yet fully. The provincial government plans to receive a budget for health workers of Rp. 92.9 billion.

"The plan is for DKI to receive incentive funds for health workers amounting to Rp92.9 billion. However, currently the transfer by the Central Government and the Regional General Treasury Account (RKUD) is Rp. 56.2 billion," he said.

So, to overcome the shortfall in the budget, said Edi, the team shifted the budget. Thus, the problem of paying incentives for medical personnel can be resolved quickly.

"Furthermore, we have made a budget shift in the form of adding a budget ceiling to the Health Office and implementing the input process into the Health Office Budget Usage Document (DPA)," concluded Edi.

For your information, DKI Jakarta medical personnel have not received incentives since the beginning of the pandemic or last March. In fact, the Government promised to provide special incentives for health workers for workers in hospitals who handle Covid-19 patients.

The amount of incentives received by medical personnel varies. For specialist doctors it is Rp. 15 million, general doctor or dentist Rp. 10 million, midwife or nurse Rp. 7.5 million, and other medical personnel Rp. 5 million. Later that number is multiplied by the hours worked proportionally.