Perum PPD Officially Joins, Damri Boss Makes Sure There Are No Employee Layoffs

JAKARTA - President Director (Managing Director) of Perum Damri, Setia N. Militia Moemin emphasized that there was no termination of employment (PHK) after the merger or merger of Perum PPD with Perum Damri.

Furthermore, Setia said, employees at Perum PPD had been fully absorbed and became part of Perum Damri.

"(For the entire workforce of Perum PPD) Damri was directly absorbed," he said when met by reporters, written on Tuesday, June 20.

As is known, Perum PPD has been merged or merged with Damri. The merger of Perum PPD with Damri is based on Government Regulation (PP) Number 30 of 2023.

With the merger of these two companies, Perum Damri is officially the only State-Owned Road-Based Public Company.

The plan for this merger was initiated by the Ministry of SOEs to strengthen the company's performance. So that it strengthens its reach and expands the network in increasing national transportation connectivity.

By joining Perum PPD into Perum Damri, Setia hopes that the increase in national connectivity can be realized. Especially to support national economic growth and equity, improve and develop the capacity of sustainable road transportation service providers.

"Hopefully it can provide great benefits to the economy in the country. As well as providing optimism to the people of Indonesia, that national transportation will continue to grow and in the end can compete in the domestic and global markets," he said.

Previously, Deputy Minister of SOEs Kartika Wirjoatmodjo said that this merger was an initiative of the Ministry of SOEs as an effort to strengthen accessibility to community mobility and national connectivity which at the same time created added value or value creation and sustainability for state-owned companies.

"This initiative aims to strengthen the reach power and expand business networks so that overlapping due to having the same business focus between the two entities," said Tiko in his remarks at the Commemoration Ceremony of Perum PPD to Perum DAMRI which took place in Jakarta, Monday, June 19.

Tiko hopes that after this merger Perum DAMRI can work more efficiently and productively, both in running its business commercially, as well as in carrying out its function as an extension of the Government in providing community mobility services in 3 TP areas (Disadvantaged, Remote, Outermost and Border). This is of course to maintain the milestone of achieving value creation which has become a post-merging target.

"Perum DAMRI is expected to cooperate and increase multimodal integration with other transportation companies, so that they can become feed system accelerators on other modes of transportation such as buses, trains, high-speed trains, MRT, LRT, and even aircraft," he said.