Pramono-Rano Want To Apply 4 Working Days In Jakarta, Ministry Of SOEs: Good Policy

The elected Governor and Deputy Governor of Jakarta, Pramono Anung and Rano Karno. (Photo: Nailin In Saroh/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) has no problem with the discourse of the elected transition team of the Governor and Deputy Governor of Jakarta, Pramono Anung and Rano Karno, who want to implement four working days for workers in Jakarta.

Deputy for Human Resources, Technology and Information Management of the Ministry of SOEs Tedi Bharata said that the policy was good to implement. In fact, he said, the four-day work concept has also begun to be applied at the Ministry of SOEs.

"We are okay, this is a good policy," said Tedi when met at the Ministry of SOEs, Jakarta, Friday, January 24.

According to Tedi, the Ministry of SOEs already has a compressed work schedule (CWS) program in implementing four working days for employees.

Tedi said that in this program there are a number of conditions that need to be met by employees of the Ministry of SOEs to be able to get four days or 3 days off in a week.

One of the conditions, said Tedi, is that employees of the Ministry of SOEs must fulfill 40 hours of work in one week. Then, the fulfillment of disciplinary and performance requirements, and must prepare a plan and work output for 4 days.

Tedi Progam CWS is also voluntary, so employees of the Ministry of SOEs who want to work in just four days for a week must first submit.

"If we do it in the form of a facility, compressed work schedule, so 4 days (work) if the time is 40 hours a week. So that's a facility, if you want to take it, go ahead, but it needs to be approved first," he said.

Tedi also said that the four-day work facility only applies to the Ministry of SOEs, which has not been implemented in state-owned companies. In addition, the CWS program will continue to be evaluated to find out the effectiveness of employee productivity.

"Until now (the CWS program) is running, we are still evaluating this. But this is not yet (in BUMN), it is still at the Ministry of SOEs," he said.

Previously, a member of the Pramono-Rano transition team, Nirwono Joga, said that Pramono Anung plans to implement a four-day work system in one week in Jakarta. In a sense, there is an addition of one holiday other than the weekend on Saturdays and Sundays.

This was revealed by a city planning expert who is also a member of the Pramono-Rano transition team, Nirwono Joga in a joint discussion with the PDIP faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD.

"This is another trend in European cities actually, in Scandinavia. What is it? Reduction of weekdays. Four working days. Four working days are one of the things being initiated (Pramono)," said Nirwono at the DKI Jakarta DPRD Building, Tuesday, January 21.

However, this four-day working system is only applied during the peak of the rainy season or the peak of the dry season.

Given, during the rainy season, Jakarta is often hit by floods. Traffic congestion is increasing due to vehicles having difficulty crossing inundation points.

Then during the dry season, the level of air pollution in Jakarta is often high. In fact, Jakarta is often one of the most polluting big cities in the world.

However, this 4-day work plan still needs to be finalized by the DKI Provincial Government when Pramono-Rano starts to lead Jakarta, and is coordinated with the DKI Jakarta DPRD.