Menaker Yassierli Reveals National K3 Performance Still Has Serious Challenges

Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Yassierli. (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Yassierli revealed that the national Occupational Safety and Health (K3) performance still has a number of serious challenges that must be faced in 2026.

"We also have to be honest about the reality. Nationally, our K3 performance still faces serious challenges. Based on data for 2024, there were 319,224 reported cases of work accidents," said the Minister of Home Affairs Yassierli, as reported by ANTARA, Monday, January 12.

He said that currently Indonesia has as many as 146 million workers.

These workers, he continued, are exposed to varying levels of risk, ranging from the industrial sector, the service sector, to the digital economy sector.

"The level of occupational accidents is certainly not just a statistic. Behind each number, there are many workers who experience a decrease in loss of work ability, workers who lose their lives, families who lose their livelihoods, companies that are disrupted by productivity, and a not small social and economic cost burden," said Yassierli.

The Minister of Home Affairs assessed that work accidents are an alarm that there are still gaps in the K3 system at the corporate and national levels.

"One work accident is not only a technical failure, but a system failure. Work accidents occur because there are still unsafe work processes, unsuitable work equipment, supervision that is not optimal, and a K3 culture that has not fully taken root," he said.

"Therefore, today's K3 challenge cannot be addressed with a partial or reactive approach. We need a different way of thinking and a different way of working," he added.

Throughout 2025, Yassierli said the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker) has made efforts to take various steps to strengthen the national K3 system.

"We continue to refine the regulatory framework and K3 standards to be more adaptive to changes in the world of work," he said.

Kemnaker has also held training, certification, and the development of competencies on an ongoing basis by stakeholders.

Furthermore, Yassierli said, his ministry has also carried out socialization for the K3 culture to trade unions/workers and company management, as well as transforming the digital-based K3 service process at the Ministry of Manpower.

"We want a digital process with high maturity and integrated. Starting from the coaching system, reporting, supervision, to strengthening the database of work accidents and work-related diseases," said the Minister of Home Affairs.

"The goal is not just digitization but data-based decision-making so that it has an impact on policies for more targeted K3 prevention policies," he concluded.