Government Invites Vulnerable Workers To Participate In BPJS Employment

Deputy II Chief of Presidential Staff of the Republic of Indonesia Abetnego Tarigan/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The Presidential Staff Office (KSP) invites workers who have a high risk of working or are vulnerable to become BPJS Ketenagakerjaan participants. Deputy II Chief of the Presidential Staff of the Republic of Indonesia Abetnego Tarigan said that the employment social security protection program has been proven to provide benefits for workers' families, especially those who included in the category of vulnerable workers. Zero extreme poverty is our common hope," said Abetnego after witnessing the distribution of compensation to heirs, in Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra, Wednesday, March 16. As is well known, the government has prepared social protection for vulnerable and non-ASN workers throughout Indonesia. This step is an optimization of the implementation of the employment social security program that has been running. To support these activities, the government issued several policies and regulations, namely the Presidential Instruction (Inpres) which regulates the optimization of the implementation of the employment social security program. This regulation, instructs 24 ministries/agencies , governors, and regents/mayors to optimize the implementation of the Jamsostek program. Abetnego reminded that optimizing BPJS Employment participation for vulnerable and non-ASN workers is the responsibility of each local government. This refers to Permendagri No. 27/2021 which regulates Jamsostek budgeting for the protection of non-ASN workers, election organizers, vulnerable workers, to workers in BUMD throughout Indonesia. The budget is there. The regional government must be an example before asking business actors to register their workers with BPJS Ketenagakerjaan,” explained Abetnego, quoted by Antara. One of them, Ramadi's mother, who received compensation of Rp. 384 million. The compensation was obtained because the husband who died due to a work accident had become a BPJS Employment participant. "If there is a work accident, BPJS will bear the heirs to be able to go to school up to S1," explained the Deputy Director of BPJS Employment at the North Sumatra Regional Office. Panji Wibisana said there were around five thousand potential vulnerable workers who are the focus of employment social security protection in Pematang Siantar. Four thousand of them are farmers and ranchers.