Visiting The KPK Building, Menaker Ida Fauziyah Asked For Assistance To Live The Salary Subsidy Program

The Indonesian Minister of Manpower, Ida Fauziyah at the KPK building. (Photo: Ministry of Manpower)

JAKARTA - The Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Ida Fauziyah visited the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) building. Ida admitted that he came to ask anti-gas institutions to participate in overseeing the salary or wage subsidy program for workers whose salaries are below IDR 5 million.

In addition, Ida said he also conveyed the development of the salary or wage subsidy assistance program to the KPK. One of them, about how to provide assistance.

"We conveyed the progress and of course we asked the KPK to provide assistance to us. Because the program is already running," he said, at the KPK building, Wednesday, September 9.

Ida said before the KPK he explained the procedures for providing salary subsidies. He explained, data on potential beneficiaries came from data on active participants in the BPJS Ketenagakerjaan employment social security program. Then, verification and validation of the data of potential beneficiaries is carried out.

Furthermore, Ida said, this salary subsidy program is already running and will enter the third phase. Ida said that in the first stage, 99.6 percent of the aid had been distributed through the Association of State-Owned Banks (Himbara) and 98.7 percent outside Bank Himbara.

"Then the second batch distributed through Bank Himbara is 99.18 percent and outside Bank Himbara is 52.07 percent. Stage two is also still in the distribution process. Batch 3 is in the process of conducting a check list by the Ministry of Manpower," he said.

Ida said that the program is targeted for 15,725,232 workers who earn below IDR 5 million per month. However, Ida admitted that the Ministry of Manpower would periodically validate the data.

"So we encourage economic growth to run well, and the purchasing power of fellow workers is also lifted by this program," he said.

Today, Mrs. @idafauziyah, accompanied by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Manpower @anwsanusi attended an audience with the Chairman of @KPK_RI (9/9). This hearing discussed the distribution of salary / wage subsidies for workers, and to ensure that the distribution of these subsidies is right on target. pic.twitter.com/5BHV4pb55y

- Ministry of Manpower (@KemnakerRI) September 9, 2020

According to Ida, assistance from the KPK is very important in the salary subsidy program. This is to ensure that this program is right on target and really is to protect, maintain and increase the economic capacity of workers or laborers in the context of handling the impact of COVID-19.

"We need time per batch in the context of being careful. We are grateful and will continue to ask the KPK leadership to accompany us, so that the entire program can run on target," he said.