Kudus Regency Government Complains That Many ASN Enter Retirement Period During The Elimination Of Honorary 2023

Illustration of ASN Kudus. (Between)

Central Java - The Kudus Regency Government has ensured that it still needs honorary staff serving in a number of regional apparatus organizations (OPD), following the many civil servants (ASN) who are entering retirement age.

"If the government really implements the policy of eliminating honorariums in 2023, of course we will have difficulty optimizing the existing ASN because the allocation of the number of CPNS and government employees with work agreements (PPPK) with retired ASNs is also not comparable," said Regent Kudus Hartopo when met after retirement certificates (SK) for 41 ASN and one regional honorary employee (PHD) at the Kudus Regency Hall, quoted from Antara, Wednesday 29 June.

He noted that almost every month in Kudus Regency there are 40 ASNs who enter retirement period so that employees in a number of OPD will experience a reduction.

The current honorary staff, according to him, are certainly very helpful when many are entering retirement age.

The number of honorary staff owned by the Kudus Regency Government is 97 people, not including the teacher's honorary staff which reaches hundreds of people.

Related to this problem, Hartopo said, his party is coordinating with the central government because there are differences in regulations from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform of the Republic of Indonesia.

Meanwhile, the Secretary of the Education and Training Personnel Agency (BKPP) of Kudus Regency, Putut Winarno, confirmed that his party is still coordinating with the central government regarding the policy to eliminate honorary workers in 2023.

"Including the fate of employees at the Regional Public Service Agency (BLUD) of the Kudus Regional Hospital, they are also still coordinating because there are regulations that include these workers in the rules for eliminating honorariums in the coming year," he said.

According to him, it is impossible to stop them considering there is still a shortage of employees because every month there are ASNs who retire.

The abolition of honorariums is based on the government's concern about the local government continuously recruiting honorary workers.

Based on Article 88 of PP No. 48 of 2005 concerning the Appointment of Honorary Personnel to Candidates for Civil Servants, government agencies prohibit the recruitment of honorary workers, while the provisions for the elimination of honorariums are also stated in Article 96 of PP. 49/2018 concerning Management of Government Employees with Employment Agreements.