The government through the State Civil Service Agency has explained the recruitment scheme for Government Employees with a Work Agreement (PPPK) for a number of positions in the state civil apparatus (ASN). Including teacher in 2021.

"To encourage the productivity of the bureaucracy in public services, the government plans to recruit one million PPPK teachers by 2021 to meet the teacher shortages that occur in many regions," said Acting Head of the Bureau of Public Relations, Law and Cooperation of the State Civil Service Agency (BKN) Paryono in a statement. Written received in Jakarta, Wednesday.

He said that volunteer teachers, including teachers of honorary category 2 (ex-honorer K-2), are very open to registering and taking the selection examination to become PPPK teachers. However, BKN also continues to coordinate with the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform and the Ministry of Education and Culture to continue to solicit input from various parties, as a basis for making policies, so that teachers can clarify their status and improve welfare.

Right now, the government did not rule out the possibility of continuing to open a limited formation of Civil Servant Candidates (CPNS) to ensure the continuity of education.

This has been announced by the Ministry of Education and Culture and will be the focus of BKN in 2021.

Law Number 5 of 2014 concerning ASN states that ASN (State Civil Apparatus) employees consist of Civil Servants (Civil Servants) and Government Employees with a Work Agreement / PPPK (Government Workers) PNS and PPPK have equal positions, duties and responsibilities in public services.

The division of the work scheme civil servants are more focused on making decisions or policies through managerial positions, while PPPK focuses on improving the quality of public services and encouraging the acceleration of increased professionalism and performance of government agencies.

PPPK may also hold managerial positions at the Intermediate High Leadership Position (JPT) level, after obtaining permission from the President.

Referring to the ASN management system in developed countries, the PPPK scheme is applied to recruit professionals in certain positions.

According to Presidential Regulation Number 38 of 2020, there are 147 functional positions that can be filled by PPPK, including Teacher Functional Positions.

The urgent need for PPPK appointments in teacher positions had due to complaints about the shortage of teachers and the unequal distribution of teachers in the regions. For this reason, filling teacher positions using the PPPK scheme is considered appropriate, without reducing their rights as civil servants.

PPPK will receive income rights in the form of salaries and allowances with the same amount as civil servants according to the level and group of positions.