Constraints Of The Implementation Of Merit Systems, KASN: The Existence Of Political Interventions To Bureaucratics And ASN

Illustration of the state civil apparatus (ASN) or civil servants (PNS). (Antarananews)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the State Civil Apparatus Commission (KASN) Agus Pramusinto said strong political interventions against the bureaucracy and ASN are a challenge for implementing the merit system within the government ASN environment.

The merit system is known to be an ASN policy based on qualifications and performance.

"There are three factors that are still a challenge in the framework of implementing the merit system which is the task of KASN, namely one, strong political intervention against the bureaucracy and ASN," Agus said while giving a speech at the Reflection on 9 Years of KASN and Resolution 2023 at the KASN Office, Jakarta, Monday, January 16, was confiscated by Antara.

In this regard, he continued, so far KASN has always taken action against various complaints of alleged violations of neutrality due to political intervention and provided recommendations for punishment to employees (PPK) officials related to ASN who were proven to have violated.

As contained in Article 1 of Law Number 5 of 2014 concerning State Civil Apparatus, the merit system is an ASN policy and management based on qualifications, competence, and performance that is applied fairly and fairly without discrimination.

Furthermore, two other challenges in implementing the merit system on ASN policies and management in government agencies are the practice of corruption in various forms and the competence gap between the need and the availability of ASN that excels in occupying strategic positions in the bureaucracy.

To minimize the occurrence of corrupt practices, especially the practice of buying and selling positions in filling high leadership positions (JPT), Agus said KASN continues to be present to ensure JPT filling runs in accordance with statutory regulations.

"KASN also ensures that JPT is filled by ASN according to the qualifications, competencies, and high performance," said Agus.

In 2022, KASN has supervised JPT filling, either through open selection or competency testing by issuing 3,289 JPT filling recommendations. In that supervision, KASN found that the JPT filling quality index was 81.9 or in the good category.

Regarding the competence gap between the need and availability of ASN that excels in occupying strategic positions in the bureaucracy, KASN seeks to overcome this by supervising the implementation of the merit system in government agencies.

"KASN has assessed the application of the merit system until 2022 to 460 government agencies where the value of the merit system category is either above as many as 217 government agencies or 47.3 percent," he said.

KASN was formed on January 15, 2014 to coincide with the ratification of the ASN Law.