Postponement Of Appointment Of CPNS, ASN Revenue Potentially Lost Reaches IDR 6.7 Trillion

Executive Director of the Center of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara (Photo: dock.VOI)

JAKARTA - The postponement of the appointment of CPNS which was originally scheduled for March 2025 to October 2025 or March 2026 is bad news for candidates for the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) and is a blow to the economy because it will cause losses.

Executive Director of the Center of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara estimates that with the postponement of the appointment of CPNS, the total ASN revenue that has the potential to be lost is IDR 6.76 trillion.

According to him, prospective civil servants who had hoped for the appointment of CPNS in March 2025, had already been redesigned earlier than the previous job, but were disappointed because they became pseudo unemployed for 9 months, and the government was unable to become a shock absorber when the private sector was hit by mass layoffs.

Bhima explained that the total figure arises if the assumption is that the average basic salary of ASN is IDR 3.2 million for a working period of 0-3 years and then 80 percent of the basic salary is taken, minus taxes and added various allowances so that it is obtained around IDR 3 million per month.

"If there are 9 months of delays in the appointment of CPNS, it means that there is a potential income per ASN person that is lost of Rp. 27 million. Meanwhile, there are 250,407 formations needed both at the central and regional levels," he said in his statement, quoted on Tuesday, March 11.

Bhima said that this was only a loss suffered by ASN candidates because they did not receive income. However, the postponement of the appointment of CPNS also has an impact on the economy.

"Meanwhile, the lost multiplier impact due to the delay in the appointment of CPNS could be even greater in total economics," he explained.

Bhima said that the government was experiencing two acute problems, namely first, the opening of the CPNS formation of 250,407 positions was carried out before Prabowo's new administration.

"This means that changes in program priorities, and reshuffles of government spending allocations in the Prabowo era have a significant impact on the formation of ASN needs," he explained.

Next is the second problem, namely, the efficiency of government spending (asterity measures) is the main reason the government has postponed the appointment of CPNS with an efficiency target of APBN spending of IDR 306 trillion, which does not include Danantara capital, so that employee spending is one of the targets for extreme savings.

Bhima conveyed that the budget efficiency which had an impact on delaying the appointment of CPNS could not be separated from three main factors, namely the failure of state revenues, especially afterchotax problems and falling commodity prices.

Furthermore, the waste of infrastructure development in the Jokowi era had an impact on widening the state budget deficit and debt burdens that exceeded Rp1,350 trillion including due debt and interest on debt must be sought from savings (although not sufficient).