Managing Teachers with Promises

The government announced on Tuesday (17/11/2020) that contract teachers would be given the opportunity to take online tests in 2021 in hopes of gaining civil servant status. This is to be realized through the scheme of government employees on a contract basis or PPSK.

The government has reportedly set the target of appointing a million contract teachers as civil servants (PNS). Besides the status promotion, contract teachers are also promised to receive incentives during the pandemic. For a period of three months, non-PNS madrasah (Islamic school) teachers will get a pay subsidy of Rp600,000. As claimed by the government, there are 543,928 raudlatul atfal (kindergarten)/madrasah teachers. Therefore, the government has budgeted Rp979,070.400. Meanwhile, 93,480 non-PNS Islamic education teachers in state schools will also receive aid.