Sri Mulyani's Subordinates Said That The 2025 ASN Salary Increase Would Be Announced On August 16, 2024

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JAKARTA - Director General of Budget at the Ministry of Finance Isa Rachmatarwata conveyed that the certainty of the increase in the salaries of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) will be announced by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on August 16, 2024.

Meanwhile, the announcement will be announced by the President of the Republic of Indonesia in submitting the Draft Law on the State Revenue and Expenditure Budget for Fiscal Year 2025 along with its Financial Note.

"We'll wait for August 16. We'll just have to wait," he told the media crew after the Launching and Socialization of the Implementation of the Nickel and Timah Commodities through Simbara, Monday, July 22.

However, Isa has not been able to reveal the percentage increase. However, the adjustment of ASN salaries to the State Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBN) for Fiscal Year 2025 can be in various forms, such as an increase in basic salary, improving performance allowances and providing incentives in other forms.

"The adjustment can take many forms. It can increase the basic salary, adjust the improvement of performance allowances, or provide other incentives," he said.

For information, the plan to increase the salaries of Civil Servants (PNS) is contained in the Macroeconomic Framework and the Principles of Fiscal Policy (KEM PPKF) 2025 which became the basis before the 2025 State Revenue and Expenditure Budget Draft (RAPBN) was proposed.

Meanwhile, the direction of regional fiscal policy in 2025 is to fulfill employee spending as follows. First, restructuring employee spending which includes only salaries and attached allowances, regional performance allowances, and pension contributions and JKN.

Second, saving the components of personnel spending by adjusting employment policies, among others, through the preparation of civil servant formations based on the analysis of positions and/or analysis of employee needs, implementing a policy of gradually reducing the number of employees (minus growth), and implementing employee transfer policies between regions.

In general, the policy of spending on employees in 2025, the government consistently continues the bureaucratic reform process towards adapting new work patterns that utilize Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to encourage productivity.

The direction of the 2025 employee spending policy will be focused, among others, to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the bureaucracy as the key to the success of fiscal reforms through strengthening the implementation of ASN management, digitizing public bureaucracy and services, and adapting flexible working arrangements.

Furthermore, improving the quality of personnel spending while maintaining the consumption of state officials, among others, through the provision of THR and 13th salary/retirement and adjustment of ASN salaries, reforming the pension guarantee system and guaranteeing old-age civil servants (PNS) and completing the implementation of bureaucratic reform as a whole to realize a more quality, professional, and integrity public bureaucracy and services.

Meanwhile, the employee spending policy will also take into account the needs of new employees by implementing a zero growth policy for non-education and non-health workers employees and encouraging equitable distribution of education and health personnel.