Sri Mulyani: Assistance for Wage Workers Under IDR 5 Million Liquid From Today

JAKARTA - Minister of Finance, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, said that the first phase of the distribution of incentives for workers With wages below IDR 5 million per month would begin on Monday, August 24.

"The Ministry of Manpower has issued its Permenaker and DIPA. So on August 24, the first phase of distribution can be started,” she said at the Joint Meeting with Commission XI DPR RI quoted from Antara.

Sri Mulyani stated that she prepared all this incentive. Both the Budget Implementation List (DIPA) and the issuance of the Minister of Manpower Regulation (Permenaker).

She explained that 15.7 million workers would receive the incentive.

"They should be registered with BPJS Ketenagakerjaan until June 2020 and already have names and account numbers," she said.

Not only that, he stated that honorary teachers were also among the 15.7 million beneficiaries worth a total of IDR 2.4 million per person.

Honorary teachers who receive the benefits of these incentives should have been registered in BP Jamsostek and who are currently in the data refinement stage at the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of PAN RB.

"The honorary teachers who get these benefits should already be registered with BPJS Employment. They are also in the process of refining the database at the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Pan-RB," she explained.

Sri Mulyani said that a total incentive of IDR 2.4 million is given as much as IDR 600,000 per month for four months. It will be paid in two disbursements.

"For this, direct transfers are carried out in two disbursements. The budget prepared is IDR 37.87 trillion," she said.