All 72,000 of the civil servants working for the Jakarta provincial government have not been paid their salaries due to the recent major reshuffle within the administration. Agus Suradika, head of the Jakarta Regional Employment Agency, tried to calm thousands of nerves by promising that all salaries will be paid tomorrow.
“Now none of the civil servants have been paid. So, hopefully tomorrow at the earliest, the civil servants can be paid their salaries along with spouse and children allowance, rank allowance, and regional allowance,” Agus said today, as quoted by Kompas.
Agus explained that Jakarta civil servants were scheduled to receive their salaries on the first day of every month. But there have been delays this month as January 1 was a public holiday, and Governor Ahok reappointed thousands of city officials on January 2, meaning the administration needed time to revise the salaries of the civil servants.
“If the salaries were paid on the day of the reappointments, it could be that city officials are paid not according to their new titles, which means the salary would have to be returned,” Agus said.
“With civil servants, they’re paid first and then they work. In private companies, the employees work first and then they get paid. So this is not exactly lateness, but just pushing it back a bit. Tomorrow, God willing, their salaries will be paid.”
