Public Facilities At IKN Ready To Welcome ASN

Portrait of IKN. (ANTARA).

JAKARTA - A number of public facilities in the capital city of Nusantara (IKN) of East Kalimantan are ready to welcome the arrival of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) who will be on duty.

Deputy for Social Culture for Empowerment of the Capital Archipelago Authority (OIKN) Alimudin said that public facilities were also built in such a way as to support community life in IKN.

"Don't worry about welfare and God willing, there will be a decent life. Don't worry, there are also malls there, now all are being built. Including international hospitals, international schools, and others," Alimudin said at the ASN Festival 2024, in Jakarta, Saturday.

In addition to a number of public facilities, Alimudin said that the construction of 21 residential flats (rusun) had also been completed to be occupied by ASN who would serve there.

Therefore, he invited ASN not to worry about welfare if it was transferred to IKN in East Kalimantan.

Moreover, said Alimudin, President Joko Widodo has stated that those who want to move will definitely get incentives.

According to him, the initial phase of IKN development in North Penajam Paser Regency also contributed to the economic growth in the region of up to 14.49 percent.

"It is extraordinary that it is at least five percent of economic growth. Then (the province's economic growth) in East Kalimantan is seven-coma of a percentage. The local income community can be five times what it is now," he said.

Alimudin, who claimed to have lived in East Kalimantan for 33 years, said that transmigration in the area had also occurred since the 1960s.

"Don't worry about social character in East Kalimantan. From the 1960s transmigration has been there. The most populous people in IKN are Javanese, both Bugis, Banjar," he said.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (Kemenpan-RB) has prepared 40 thousand quotas for accepting Candidates for Civil Servants (CPNS) and Government Employees with Work Agreements (PPPK) in 2024.

"From that quota, about five percent is allocated for the sons and daughters of East Kalimantan who will be placed in the capital city of Nusantara (IKN)," said Kemenpan-RB Main Policy Analyst Arizal.

According to him, ASN stationed at IKN will be attached to ministries/agencies in receiving 40,000 CPNS for this year.

"In the near future there will be a selection. There is an affirmation for the sons and daughters of East Kalimantan to be able to compete to fill ASN, ASN candidates, civil servants who will later be placed in Ministries/Institutions in IKN," said Arizal.

This also includes the current ASN, both echelon III and IV officials around East Kalimantan Province (Kaltim) who are more likely to contribute to the Ministries/Institutions in IKN through mutations and will also be given affirmations.

Not only that, ASN who will be transferred to IKN must master digital literacy.

"So it is related to the competence of ASN being transferred, this is indeed requested that those who master digital literacy because their work there has changed greatly," he said.

This is in accordance with Permenpan-RB Number 7 of 2022 which regulates new ways of working in order to build competence and competition.