Allocation Of The West Sumatra ASN Budget Up After Six Years, Now The Value Is IDR 380 BILLION

West Sumatra Governor Mahyeldi. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

The West Sumatra Provincial Government allocated Rp380 billion for Additional Employee Income (TPP) in 2023, an increase of around Rp130 billion from the 2022 budget which reached Rp258 billion.

"This allowance is to motivate ASN to improve performance to be better than the previous year. This is also to improve services to the community," said West Sumatra Governor Mahyeldi as quoted by Antara, Friday, January 6.

According to him, the West Sumatra Provincial Government already has performance indicators that are used as the basis for calculating employee allowances. ASNs that have good performance will get greater benefits than others.

Thus, it is hoped that all sectors related to services to the community will be better and the benefits will be widely felt.

However, even though the TPP has increased from before, the local government is bound by regulations related to personnel spending. Employee spending should not be more than 30 percent of the APBD.

Currently, the expenditure of West Sumatra Provincial Government employees has reached 33 percent of the APBD, therefore a regulatory solution must be found from the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform, starting in 2026, personnel expenditure should not be more than 30 percent, the remaining 70 percent of public spending.

Meanwhile, West Sumatra Regional Government Budget Team (TAPD) member Medi Iswandi said the increase in TPP was natural because it had not increased since six years ago. Especially in 2022, the TPP amount of West Sumatra Provincial Government ASN is smaller than the TPP ASN Padang City Government.

"So this is also an adjustment to the workload of ASN," he said.

According to him, the increase in the TPP is not the same for each ASN. TPP payments based on workload classes do not only refer to echelons.

"So there are ASN whose TPP increase has reached 200 percent but there are also only 10 percent. The group with the highest increase is for functionals with high workloads and large work risks. Such as teachers and health workers," he said.

Meanwhile, for echelon II equivalent groups, the increase is only around 20 to 10 percent.

Currently, the Governor's Regulation on the increase in TPP in the West Sumatra Provincial Government in 2023 is awaiting approval from the Ministry of Home Affairs.