The Ministry Of Education And Culture's 2020 Budget Absorption Is 91.6 Percent, The Most Is The Social Assistance Sector

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendikbud) reports that it has realized 91.61 percent of the 2020 budget or around Rp. 79 trillion of the total ceiling provided by the state, amounting to Rp. 86.2 trillion.

Secretary General of the Ministry of Education and Culture Ainun Na'im said for the 2020 ceiling there was an additional budget of IDR 8.3 trillion which was intended for adjustments to activities during the pandemic period.

"This (addition) is used to allocate internet budget, professional allowances, and subsidies for educational staff wages," he said during a virtual work meeting with Commission X of the DPR-RI, Wednesday, January 20.

In detail, the ministry led by Nadiem Makarim reported that the social assistance sector (bansos) was the sector that absorbed the highest budget with a percentage of 99 percent or around Rp. 16.1 trillion from the Rp. 16.2 trillion budget ceiling.

Then, followed by personnel expenditure of 95 percent of Rp. 24 trillion from Rp. 25 trillion, expenditure for goods of 86 percent of Rp. 33 trillion from Rp. 38 trillion, and capital expenditure of 85 percent of Rp. 5.4 trillion from the ceiling of Rp. 6.3 trillion.

Honorary staff

Previously, the DPR-RI through Commission II initiated the revision of Law Number 5 of 2014 concerning the State Civil Apparatus (ASN Law) to enter the 2021 national legislation program (prolegnas).

The renewal of the regulation is expected to accommodate the desires of millions of honorary staff, especially teachers, who fall into category 2 (K-2) to obtain clear employment status.

This is because the K-2 workers hope to be appointed as civil servants, while the government has yet to provide certainty about this. As a middle ground, the DPR then proposed what were called government employees with a work agreement (PPPK) as a solution.

Later, the Minister for Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (Menpan RB) Tjahjo Kumolo gave a signal that the government refused the initiative.