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Civil servant recruits remain wary despite earlier start dates
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New civil servants take their oath on March 22, 2024 during an induction ceremony at Bogor City Hall in Bogor, West Java. (Antara/Arif Firmansyah)
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ewly recruited civil servants (CASN) and government contract employees (PPPK) have taken the government’s claim that it will move up their start dates with a grain of salt, noting that the authorities could still change their minds amid the “budget-cutting season”.
Earlier this month, Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Rini Widyantini announced after a meeting with lawmakers that some 1.2 million CASN and PPPK would only begin working in October of this year and March of next year, respectively, because of "administrative matters”.
The inauguration processes for the state workers had previously been scheduled to take place from February to July of this year.
The controversial decision was met with public backlash, as scores of people staged protests in several cities to demand accountability for months of lost income and financial setbacks. The Center for Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS) estimated a total income loss of Rp 6.76 trillion (US$415.5 million) as a result of the delay.
On Monday, following the backlash, State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi announced that the government would move up the start date to June for CPNS and October for PPPK.
A number of the recruits, however, remain cautious.
