Speech To The Financial Note, Jokowi Will Not Discuss The Increase In Civil Servant Salaries Next Year

President Jokowi in the 2024 financial note (Photo: Screenshot of youtube setpres by Fakhri Rezy/VOI)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) did not at all discuss the increase in the salaries of civil servants (PNS) including the State Civil Apparatus (ASN), the TNI-Polri in 2025 in a speech delivering the 2025 State Budget Bill and Financial Notes.

Jokowi did discuss state spending in his speech. He said state spending was planned at IDR 3,613.1 trillion. However, he did not expect the slightest increase in civil servant salaries.

"It consists of, Central Government spending of IDR 2,693.2 trillion, as well as transfers to the regions of IDR 919.9 trillion," he said in a speech delivering the 2025 RAPBN and Financial Notes, at the DPR Building, Jakarta, Friday, August 16.

Previously, it was reported that the 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) would 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 launch 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.