Get Ready, 2nd Wave Salary Subsidy Launched In November

Illustrated. (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - The government has confirmed that the second batch of salary subsidy assistance will be disbursed again in early November. This assistance is planned to be provided until the end of the year or to be precise December 2020.

The head of the National Economic Recovery and Transformation Task Force, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said that the government is currently still distributing the 1st batch of salary subsidies until the end of October. So, the second wave will only be distributed in November.

"The second salary subsidy program will be distributed in November and December. There are still some that will be distributed until the end of this October," he said in a video conference, Wednesday, October 21.

The participants who received the salary subsidy assistance program reached 15.7 million, of which the disbursement process was divided into 5 batches. Participants who have not received the disbursement of this aid due to invalid data discrepancies will be continued in the second batch in early November.

Budi said that the first batch of salary subsidies had been distributed in stages from September to October. Of the total budget of Rp. 37.87 trillion, the amount of aid that has been distributed has reached Rp. 13.99 trillion per second week of October or about 36.9 percent of the total allocation. This assistance has touched 11.6 million workers.

Similar to batch I, candidate recipients of salary assistance in batch II, which will be launched from November to December, will receive assistance of Rp1.2 million per two months. So in total, each worker will receive a salary subsidy of IDR 2.4 million.

The government has indeed expanded the scope of recipients of salary subsidy assistance. Especially at the end of this October, the disbursement of assistance will be focused on honorary educators and independent workers. The plan is that the salary subsidy assistance will be continued back to 2021.