WFH Every Friday Starting April 1, 2026, Airlangga Claims to Save Fuel English: WFH Every Friday Starting April 1, 2026, Airlangga Claims to Save Fuel

Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto (Photo: VOI doc)

JAKARTA - The government has set a policy of working from home (work from home/WFH) every Friday for the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) and the private sector as a step to save fuel oil (BBM) consumption in the midst of global geopolitical dynamics.

Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said that this policy will be implemented starting April 1, 2026 and will be evaluated after two months of implementation.

Meanwhile, the technical arrangements related to the implementation of the WFH policy will be spelled out in a circular letter from the Minister of State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB), the Minister of Home Affairs, and the Minister of Manpower.

"This policy will take effect on April 1 and will be evaluated after 2 months of implementation and this technical arrangement will be included in the circular of the Minister of PAN-RB, the Minister of Home Affairs, and the Minister of Manpower," he said in a virtual press conference, Tuesday, March 31.

Airlangga ensured that even though ASN worked from home one day a week, public services continued to run optimally.

He explained that the selection of Friday was based on practices that had been implemented in a number of ministries and agencies after the COVID-19 pandemic, with a four-day work pattern effective in a week.

"Because several K/L (ministries/institutions) have implemented it, working 4 days a week with an application, this is after COVID yesterday. We choose Friday because it is half, which means not the whole of Monday-Thursday," he said.

Meanwhile, he said for the private sector, the implementation of WFH will be regulated through a circular letter from the Minister of Manpower while still considering the characteristics of each business sector, and this policy also includes an incentive for energy efficiency in the work environment.

However, Airlangga added that there were a number of sectors that were excluded from the WFH policy and continued to operate directly, namely the public service sector such as health, security, and hygiene, as well as strategic sectors such as industry, energy, water, food, trade, transportation, logistics, and finance.

As for the education sector, he said that learning activities for primary to secondary education would continue to be carried out face-to-face for five days a week, and sports and extracurricular activities would also continue to run normally.

"Meanwhile, for higher education, semester 4 and above are adjusted to the circular from the Minister of Research, Technology, and Higher Education," he said.