Thousands Of Honorary Teachers Dismissed, DKI Provincial Government Asks Them To Be Patient Waiting For The PPPK Selection

Acting Head Of DKI Jakarta Education Office Budi Awaluddin/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Thousands of honorary teachers at public schools in Jakarta were unilaterally dismissed at the beginning of the new school year 2024/2025. They are now threatened with not having a job. Then, what is the attitude of the DKI Provincial Government to help honorary teachers get their jobs back?

Acting Head of the DKI Jakarta Education Office, Budi Awaluddin, asked them to patiently wait for the selection of government employees with a work agreement (PPPK) which was opened this year.

"We will have a PPPK selection later this year. Yesterday from the Ministry of Education and Culture also stated that our needs are almost 1,900 for PPPK, for teachers. They can register there," said Budi at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Wednesday, July 17.

It was noted that around 4,000 honorary teachers in Jakarta were affected by unilateral termination of contracts. Disdik DKI blamed the principal who continued to recruit honorary teachers to teach at his school. In fact, Budi emphasized that his party had long reminded public school principals not to appoint honorary teachers.

"Even from 2022 we have informed not to appoint honorary teachers. At that time we have conveyed it, stop. But (the principal) is stubborn (still appointing honorary teachers)," said Budi.

Budi explained, since 2022, there have been special provisions in the appointment of teachers as stated in Permendikbud Number 63 of 2022.

In this regulation, teachers who can be given honorariums must meet the requirements of non-ASN status, be recorded in Basic Education Data (Dapodik), have Unique Educators and Education Personnel Number (NUPTK), and have not received teacher professional allowances.

Meanwhile, so far, the principal has appointed honorary teachers without receiving recommendations from the DKI Education Office so that the honorary teachers are not registered in the Dapodik and do not have NUPTK.

"So, what the principals have been doing so far is to appoint honorary teachers who are not aware of the Education Office and do not comply with their needs, their appointment is not published, and the appointment of subjectivity," said Budi.

Budi admitted, Disdik DKI also now has to carry out a policy of cleaning honorary teachers.

This is because the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) revealed that the findings of the use of school operational assistance funds (BOS) did not comply with the regulations. In particular, the use of funds to pay honorary teachers who were not registered in Dapodik from the start and did not have NUPTK.

"So, what the principal does is because it has the authority to manage BOS. So, many of the appointments are not in accordance with the provisions," he said.

Previously, the Teacher Education Association (P2G) revealed that there was a unilateral dismissal of honorary teachers.

Head of the Advocacy Division of P2G Teacher Iman Zanatul Haeri revealed, on July 5, 2024 or the first week of entering a new school in 2024/2025, honorary teachers received messages from their respective principals to fill out forms online.

Apparently, in the form, honorary teachers were asked to fill in the data and approval stating that they could no longer teach because of the honorary cleansing policy.

"Since the first day they entered was the last day at school. After it was announced they were no longer allowed to teach, they were told to fill out the cleansing form. It was like being shot, then told to dig their own graves," said Iman to reporters.