The Absorption of Preemployment Incentives
Amid the urgent need to prevent the economy from slipping further by accelerating budget spending and calling for a heightened sense of crisis, the bureaucracy is acting like a barrier.
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A man accesses the Prakerja.go.id site to register for the Pre-employment Card program at the Office of Manpower and Transmigration of East Java Province, Surabaya, East Java, April 13, 2020.
Amid the urgent need to prevent the economy from slipping further by accelerating budget spending and calling for a heightened sense of crisis, the bureaucracy is acting like a barrier.
In the case of the Preemployment Card program, the distribution of workers incentives has been constrained by a requirement that program participants must first complete their online training courses before the monthly assistance of Rp 600,000 is disbursed. Four months since the program was launched, only 20.35 percent of the workers incentive has been disbursed from the fixed budget (Kompas, 7/9/2020).