Approved By The Minister Of Trade, Additional Income 4,000 ASN Rejang Lebong Bengkulu Cair Near Future

Regional Secretary (Sekda) of Rejang Lebong Regency, RA Denni (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Government of Rejang Lebong Regency, Bengkulu Province immediately paid additional employee income (TPP) for more than 4,000 state civil servants (ASN) in the region.

Regional Secretary (Sekda) Rejang Lebong RA Denni said that the payment of TPP ASN has been approved by the Minister of Trade and will be paid from January to March.

"Hopefully tpp payment for January, February including March we strive can be done in the near future," he said in Rejang Lebong reported by Antara, Tuesday, April 13.

He said the payment of TPP among ASN in the scope of Rejang Lebong Regency per month reached Rp4 billion. For this year has received the approval of the Minister of Trade with the same amount as the previous year with a ceiling of around Rp36 billion.

"The letter of approval from the Minister of Trade has gone down and approved the payment of TPP for ASN in Rejang Lebong Regency, the ceiling is as large as in 2020," he explained.

As for the payment of TPP for the next month, he said, there will still be a review and re-discussion considering the regional financial budget is also a shift for the handling of COVID-19.

Meanwhile, in addition to preparing TPP payments for ASN in the region, it is also discussing the abolition of echelon III and IV positions in accordance with the provisions of the Ministry of Finance and will soon be enforced.

"This echelon official will later become functional, in fact this does not harm the ASN. If he does not sit as an echelon but functional still get the same allowance and not harm," he added.

Then the echelon position at the regional level, said Denny, not everything is abolished as for the echelon III position for camat or head of section (kabag) in the regional secretariat remains held by echelon III, while for the office / agency no longer exists and becomes a functional force.