Regarding Jiwasraya's Directors Get Bonus, The Special Staff Of The Minister Of SOEs: That's Incentive, Employees Can Also

Special Staff (Stafsus) of the Minister of SOEs Arya Sinulingga. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) has opened its voice regarding the directors of PT Asuransi Jiwasraya who received a bonus amid the threat of termination of employment (PHK) against their employees.

The Special Staff (Staffsus) of the Minister of SOEs, Arya Sinulingga, emphasized that what was given was incentives.

Furthermore, Arya said, the incentives were given not only to the directors but to all employees.

"Information obtained from management, they do not have bonuses, incentives are there. But not only directors get it, all employees get it too," he told reporters at the Ministry of SOEs Building, Jakarta, Tuesday, December 6.

Arya said the amount of incentive given was 0.8 percent of the salary.

Again, Arya emphasized that everyone can. This means that there are no exceptions to providing incentives.

"In fact, if the incentive is only 0.8 times the salary, everyone gets it, employees also get it, not only the directors get it," he said.

Arya said, incentives were given in order to give appreciation to all Jiwasraya employees who succeeded in carrying out the financial restructuring process and also solving the problem of default.

"He can appreciate the restructuring process, gets incentives, only 0.8 of salary. Not only directors, employees as well, almost all of them are flat," he said.

For your information, the contents of the board of directors' bonus in the midst of layoffs were revealed by the Jiwasraya Workers Union.

In fact, the union also revealed that as many as 189 Jiwasraya employees were threatened with layoffs.