JAKARTA - Member of Commission IX DPR RI Kurniasih Mufidayati reminded the organizers and managers of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan to ensure worker funds are stored properly.
This follows indications of mismanagement of around Rp. 20 trillion from audits by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). The results of the BPK audit have been submitted to the Attorney General's Office (Kejagung).
Mufida asked the public not to be harmed by the findings that point to indications of corruption.
"The new BPJS Ketenagakerjaan Directors and Supervisory Board are obliged to safeguard workers' funds given to BPJS Ketenagakerjaan," said Mufida in a statement received by VOI, Monday, February 22.
The management of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan is also asked to immediately publicly announce the BPK audit results that have been submitted to the Attorney General's Office.
He emphasized that this investment issue should be a serious concern of the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan in the future.
Furthermore, the PKS politician explained, the number of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan memberships as of December 2020 was 50.72 million workers. Meanwhile, the number of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan memberships from Indonesian migrant workers from 2017 to 2020 was 747 thousand participants.
Of this number, participants of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan from Indonesian migrant workers who were active in 2020 were 389 thousand people. So there are more than 50 million workers whose funds are entrusted to BPJS Ketenagakerjaan.
"Now it is the workers who are currently the most worried about the fate of the BPJS Employment investment fund. Do not add to the burden of the problem, the victims are the workers," he said.
In addition, Mufida said, there were 29.12 million workers affected by the pandemic, with details of 24.03 million people experiencing reduced working hours due to COVID-19, 2.56 million people losing their jobs or unemployed, 1.77 million people temporarily not work, and 760 thousand people entered the non-labor force as a result of the pandemic.
Likewise, Indonesian migrant workers, some of whom have to return to Indonesia, have not yet opened the doors for placement in several countries.
"We hope that as promised by BPJS Ketenagakerjaan, workers' funds are safe and this must be proven with immediate clarity from the disclosure of the alleged case," said Mufida.
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