Good News For 12,677 ASN In The Southeast Sulawesi Provincial Government, 2024 Salaries Increase 8 Percent

Head of BPKAD of Southeast Sulawesi Province Muhammad Ilyas Abibu. (ANTARA/La Ode Muh Deden Saputra)

KENDARI - The Regional Financial and Asset Management Agency (BPKAD) of Southeast Sulawesi Province (Sultra) said that his party would increase the salary of 12,677 State Civil Apparatus (ASN) within the Southeast Sulawesi Provincial Government (Pemprov) by eight percent in 2024. Head of BPKAD of Southeast Sulawesi Province Muhammad Ilyas Abibu said the increase in ASN salaries was in accordance with the policies of the central government, in this case the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo. "Later, if we can regulate the increase in salaries and policies from the president, then we will allocate it next year in the 2024 budget," said Ilyas Abibu in Kendari, Antara, Monday, August 21. The increase in ASN salaries within the Southeast Sulawesi Provincial Government will be different because it will be adjusted to the basic salary of each ASN. "Later it will be adjusted to the basic salary of each ASN," said Ilyas. He revealed that for ASN within the Southeast Sulawesi Provincial Government, there are 12,677 civil servants who will experience an increase in salaries in 2024. He hopes that the increase in the salaries of the ASN can encourage civil servants within the Southeast Sulawesi Provincial Government to further improve services to the community. Previously, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that the 2024 State Revenue and Expenditure Budget Draft (RAPBN) proposed an 8 percent increase in salaries for the Central and Regional State Civil Apparatus/TNI/Polri. "“RAPBN 2024 proposes to improve income in the form of salary increases for Central and Regional State Civil Apparatus/TNI/Polri by 8 percent and an increase for retirees by 12 percent," said President Joko Widodo in a speech delivering the State Budget Bill for Fiscal Year 2024 and Financial Notes at the DPR RI Plenary Meeting for Session Year 2023-2024, at the MPR/DPR Building, Jakarta, Wednesday. President Jokowi said that in order for the implementation of the transformation to be effective, bureaucratic reform must continue to be strengthened. Through these bureaucratic reforms, it is hoped that it can realize an efficient, competent, professional, and integrity central and regional bureaucracy.

The implementation of reform, he continued, must be carried out consistently and successfully. The increase in salaries, his message, must be followed by increased performance and productivity. " “ Improvement of welfare, allowances and remuneration of ASN is carried out based on performance and productivity," he said.