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View all search resultsJakarta seeks to further cut down on office work
The new policy will be effective starting on Friday and end on Jan. 8, 2021.
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he Jakarta Employment Agency (BKD Jakarta) is reportedly set to issue a circular stipulating that local government agencies operate at 25 percent capacity with the remaining employees working from home, as previously ordered by Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.
The new policy will be effective starting on Friday and end on Jan. 8, 2021.
“We will issue the circular in the near future,” BKD Jakarta head Chaidir said on Tuesday as quoted by tempo.co, adding that the upcoming policy was made in response to Luhut’s order in a meeting on Monday with the governors of Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java and Bali.
“I took part in the meeting and heard the order directly. We will do a follow-up by issuing the circular,” he said.
Since extending its large-scale social restriction [PSBB] policy numerous times, the Jakarta administration has been applying a maximum 50 percent capacity at its agency offices, in line with a regulation issued by the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry.
But approaching the year-end holidays, the central government has decided to lower the ratio to 25 percent as part of heightened efforts to curb COVID-19 transmission.
“Due to concerns on a possible case surge, [the central government] decided to lower the work-from-office capacity,” Chaidir said.
