Jokowi: Regulatory Transfer Of ASN To IKN Is Not An Easy Matter

President Joko Widodo delivered a press statement on the sidelines of the inauguration of a number of financial industry infrastructures in the capital city of Nusantara, East Kalimantan Province, Thursday (29/2/2024). (ANTARA/M Solih Januar)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo said that regulating the transfer of state civil servants to the capital city of Nusantara (IKN), East Kalimantan, was not an easy case.

"Managing (plans) like this is not easy, so we are preparing it," said Jokowi on the sidelines of the agenda of inaugurating the construction of a number of financial industrial infrastructure projects in the IKN area, East Kalimantan, as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, February 29.

Jokowi said state civil servants (ASN) would be gradually moved to IKN.

For this reason, the government continues to finalize the plan to move ASN to IKN, including preparing various important supporting facilities, such as housing, schools, and hospitals. "However, as I said earlier, we estimate that in the next 10 years (in the future) this city will become a living city, inhabited by many of our communities," said Jokowi. Previously, the Minister for Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform Abdullah Azwar Anas said the number of ASNs who would move to IKN in the early stages would turn to 6,000 people first because of the inadequate availability of places. Anas said that currently in IKN there are only 47 towers (graded residential areas), which one tower or power contains 60 residential units for ASN, TNI/Polri, echelon I employees, and others. "Earlier ASN will move 11,916 people, but because the buildings there are ready for 6,000 people, then 6,000 people will first move," said Anas when giving an explanation at the 2024-2025 Trade Ministry Working Meeting in Semarang, Central Java, February 20.

Not only reducing the number, the schedule for moving ASN to IKN which was supposed to be carried out in July, was postponed until after August 2024. The schedule, continued Anas, was in accordance with the direction of State Secretary Minister Pratikno. Anas reasoned that the postponement of the ASN transfer schedule to IKN was due to the area being partially used for the commemoration ceremony of the Republic of Indonesia's Independence Day on August 17.

The transfer of ASN to IKN will be divided into three priorities, namely first being echelon I employees as many as 179 people from 38 ministries/agencies. The second priority is 91 echelon I employees from 29 ministries/agencies, and the third priority is targeted at 378 echelon I employees from 59 ministries/agencies.