7000 Applicants Explode At City Hall: Pramono Asks PJLP Recruitment To Be Done In The Region, Not Province

JAKARTA The City Hall of DKI Jakarta has been a human ocean in the last few days. Thousands of residents flocked to the capital's government headquarters with one goal: to apply for jobs as employees of other individual service providers (PJLP), especially as officers for handling infrastructure and public facilities (PPSU) or better known as orange troops.

This scene caught the public's attention because not a few applicants were willing to come since the morning, bring job application files, and queue at the City Hall yard.

In fact, because the number of applicants continued to swell, local security officers were forced to move the application receipt counter to the City Hall field area so that queues would not continue to pile up inside the building.

However, it turns out that all of this crowd is motivated by misinformation. The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government (Pemprov) has not officially opened the PJLP recruitment process.

DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung said that the information circulating regarding the opening of a job application at City Hall was a hoax. Even so, he did not deny that the government would indeed open a new PJLP formation in the near future.

"In particular, we have asked the mayor and related sub-districts, for matters relating to PPSU, it is proactive to accept registration. Actually, we have decided in a meeting, the mayor who must be responsible for this registration process," said Pramono when met at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Friday, April 25.

Pramono added that he had instructed that the future recruitment process be handled directly in each administrative area, both at the city and sub-district level. The goal is to prevent the accumulation of applicants at City Hall and make it easier for residents who want to apply for work near their place of residence.

"There should be no need to come to City Hall. Residents can go directly to the sub-district or sub-district office. We want to make it easier and closer to services to the community," he said.

More than 7,000 residents have been recorded as having submitted applications to City Hall since the beginning of this week. Pramono assessed that this phenomenon is a tangible reflection of the high public need for jobs, especially after the momentum of Eid homecoming, which is often followed by a wave of newcomers to Jakarta.

"If there are still many registrations, it means that people who need work are also increasing. We cannot turn a blind eye to this reality," said Pramono.

He revealed that the plan to open vacancies for around 1,100 PJLP positions, the majority of which as PPSU, had been designed since the beginning of the year. In fact, Pramono has also simplified the administrative requirements to register for PPSU. If previously applicants had to graduate from junior high or high school, now they have enough elementary graduates as long as they are able to read and write.

"If then there are many who register, yes, it is reality. Thus we will serve this registration until it is finished and for that the process will be carried out openly," said Pramono.

He also ensured that the entire recruitment process would be carried out in a transparent and accountable manner, in order to prevent the practice of brokering or extortion that often appears in the recruitment of non-ASN employees within the government.

Meanwhile, in the midst of the long queues of job applicants, a number of residents admitted that they came from all over Jabodetabek after hearing the news that City Hall received a direct application. Some even know the information from social media uploads and conversation applications.

It is not clear where the source of the initial information regarding the opening of this vacancy came from, but the DKI Provincial Government emphasized that so far there has been no official announcement regarding the opening of PJLP recruitment. The provincial government also urges the public to wait for official information through the channel provided, such as local government websites and official social media accounts.

With the swift flow of job applicants and the public's need for affordable jobs, Governor Pramono said that his party was finalizing the technical opening of these vacancies, including quotas, selection mechanisms, and placement of the duties of the employees who passed.

"We are regulating everything so that everything is neat. So there should be no inequality or unfair impression in the process," concluded Pramono.