Starting Monday, June 28, Bengkulu Provincial Government Implements WFH For ASN For 2 Weeks

Regional Secretary (Sekda) Bengkulu Province Hamka Sabri. (Carminanda/Antara)

JAKARTA - The Bengkulu Provincial Government has again issued a "work from home" (WFH) policy for state civil servants for the next two weeks, starting Monday (28/6), due to the high spike in positive cases of COVID-19 in the area.

Regional Secretary (Sekda) of Bengkulu Province Hamka Sabri in Bengkulu, Sunday, said the policy was issued through the Bengkulu Governor's Circular Letter Number 800/870/BKD/2021 dated June 25, 2021 regarding changes to the two guidelines for the ASN work system in the new normal order in Indonesia. Bengkulu Provincial Government.

The policy is also a follow-up to the Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs Number 14 of 2021 dated June 21, 2021 regarding the implementation of restrictions on micro-based community activities and optimizing the COVID-19 handling post.

"The policy also pays attention to the increasing number of positive confirmed cases of COVID-19 and to anticipate that the spread of the virus does not expand, especially within the Bengkulu Provincial Government," he said.

He hopes that similar policies can be followed by regents and mayors in Bengkulu so that efforts to suppress the spread of the new type of corona virus can be optimal.

Head of the Regional Personnel Agency (BKD) Bengkulu Province Diah Irianti explained that the Bengkulu Governor's SE regulates ASN working from home only 75 percent of the total employees in each agency, while the other 25 percent consists of high-ranking officials, administrator officials, and permanent supervisory officials. carry out official duties in the office.

"This circular will come into effect from June 28, 2021 until July 9, 2021 and will be evaluated further as needed," he said.

This policy also stipulates that ASN working from home continues to make attendance, but manually by using communication media and reporting the location or whereabouts of the ASN to the head of the regional apparatus organization (OPD) where they work.

Previously, the Bengkulu Province Task Force for the Acceleration of COVID-19 Handling said confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Bengkulu had increased sharply in the past week, reaching 147 percent.

In the past week, the average addition of positive confirmed cases reached more than 100 cases per day. That number increased sharply from last May, which was only a dozen cases per day.