Workers Who Are Laid Off Are Guaranteed To Participate In JKN For A Maximum Of 6 Months

President Director of BPJS Kesehatan Ghufron Mukti when delivering a statement to reporters regarding Presidential Decree (Keppres) Number 59 of 2024 at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Monday (27/5/2024). ANTARA/Yashinta Difa

JAKARTA - President Director of BPJS Kesehatan Ghufron Mukti said workers who experience layoffs (PHK) are guaranteed their participation in the National Health Insurance (JKN) program for a maximum of six months. "So, six months after being laid off, we still get guarantees. But there must be evidence that he is being laid off," said Ghufron Mukti at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Antara, Monday, May 27. This provision is stated in Article 27 of Presidential Decree (Keppres) Number 59 of 2024 concerning Health Insurance. The regulation states that participants of Wage Recipient Workers (PPU) who experience layoffs still get health insurance benefits no later than six months after being laid off, without paying dues. Ghufron said workers who experienced layoffs needed to be proven by the layoff documents that had been received by workers along with the receipt of layoff reports from related agencies in regencies/cities that organize government affairs in the employment sector. The evidence includes a joint agreement and a receipt of a layoff report from the relevant agencies, as well as a deed of evidence of registration of a joint agreement or an industrial relations court decision that already has permanent legal force. The evidence of layoffs as referred to in paragraph 2 of the Presidential Regulation, was then submitted by the employer or worker to BPJS Kesehatan. In the event that the dispute over layoffs is still in the process of being resolved, said Ghufron, employers and workers continue to carry out their obligation to pay dues until a decision on layoffs has permanent legal force.

"Indeed, BPJS is the responsibility, but if there is no evidence that he is laid off, it will still be the responsibility of the employer, until there is no decision, it is still the employer, and the workers are 1 percent," he said.