The Honor Plan For The 2024 Election KPPS Officers To Increase To IDR 1 Million Because Previously It Was Inhumane

JAKARTA - The General Elections Commission (KPU) will increase the salary of the Voting Organizer Group (KPPS) officers in the 2024 General Election. Later, the amount received by KPPS officers will be IDR 1 million per person.

The increase in honorariums has an impact on the swelling budget for the 2024 General Election. It is known that the KPU previously proposed a 2024 Election budget of IDR 76 trillion.

KPU commissioner Pramono Ubaid Thantowi, revealed that during the 2019 general election, the honorarium received by the ad hoc body was not humane.

He said, in 2019, the honorarium received by the KPPS chairman was only IDR 550,000. Meanwhile, the honorarium received by KPPS members is IDR 500,000 per person.

"We talked about this yesterday, we plan to increase the honorarium for ad hoc agencies. Indeed, if we remember the honorarium for ad hoc bodies in 2019, it was actually inhumane," said Pramono, Tuesday, March 22.

In the initial honorarium plan, KPPS officers were proposed to increase at least to the equivalent of the Regional Minimum Wage (UMR) for each region. However, it later became a problem because the budget became very swollen after being calculated.

"Initially, we ideally wanted to increase at least to the minimum wage," said Pramono.

Pramono said that every time there was an increase in the honorarium, the required budget would be IDR 4 to 5 trillion.

"So that the budget we need for the increase in honorarium is around IDR 4 trillion to IDR 5 trillion, just for the increase in the honorarium for the ad hoc agency, it has increased by IDR 4 trillion to IDR 5 trillion, which we have proposed," he concluded.