The Sorrow Of Contract Teacher At HST South Kalimantan, 4 Months Late Salary Paid Asked To Pray And Be Patient

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KALIMANTAN - A total of 371 contract teachers who teach in elementary schools throughout Hulu Sungai Tengah (HST) District, South Kalimantan, have not received salaries for nearly four months.

"Starting from January until now, April 2021, we contract teachers have no clarity on the extension of contract decrees and salaries from the HST Government, in this case, the Education Office", said a teacher who did not want to be named to Antara in Barabai, Tuesday, April 13.

Although not paid, teachers are still asked to carry out obligations, go down and teach students. About honor, the teacher claimed to be paid IDR1-1.5 million every month.

"Depending on the category of assignment in remote areas. Especially now that we have entered the fasting month, of course, our needs are increasing", he explained.

Separately, the Head of HST Chairiah District Education Office explained, the total teacher contract since 2017 amounted to 475 people. But each year continues to be evaluated because someone died, stopped, or graduated as a civil apparatus of the state.

"In 2021, the number of contract teachers at the elementary school level is only 371 people, namely 96 religious teachers, 163-grade teachers, six sports teachers, and 106 school operators", she said.

The length of the pay of contract teachers' salaries following the leadership transition. She claimed that she wanted to pay the poor teacher's wages immediately.

"So just wait for the disposition of the Regent and we are sure can understand the problem of this contract teacher", she said. Contract teachers used to be recruited professionally through assessments at BKD and they have also entered the Basic Data of Education with honorer teachers.

She asked the contract teachers to be patient and pray because they continued to work on this. "Hopefully this fasting month has also come down disposition of the Regent and just sign a contract and employment agreements and salaries can be paid", she said.

While the Head of Teacher Development and Education (GTK) and Culture Disdik HST Muhammad Arsyad added to the budget of teachers contracts are already available and do not enter refocusing.

"The budget is available and Work Letter (SK) agreements have also been prepared, so just wait for the disposition of the Regent again. SK later who signed is the Head of the Education Office on behalf of the Regent of HST", he said.

Indeed, according to Arsyad, before the disaster, there was an agreement with the DPRD HST to raise the salaries of contract teachers by IDR100,000, namely the category of contract workers very remote from IDR1,250,000 to IDR1,350,000, contract workers were very remote from IDR1.5 million to IDR1.6 million and non-remote contract workers amounted to IDR1 million to IDR1.1 million.

"But because of natural disasters and this budget deficit, the honorarium for contract teachers may be returned to its origin and not increased", he said.