Workers’ Wage Subsidies to be Distributed

Recipients are selected according to the Manpower Ministry Regulation No. 16/2021 on guidelines for government grants in the form of salary or wage subsidies to workers in dealing with the impact of COVID-19.

Kompas/Wawan H Prabowo

Factory workers get ready to go home through the Lembang Market Terminal, Tangerang City, Banten, Saturday (28/3/2020). They lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Wage subsidies to help offset the impact of COVID-19 are set to be distributed to workers in August 2021. Companies have been called upon to register their workers with the Workers Social Security Agency (BP Jamsostek) to make them eligible for the subsidies.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The government will soon distribute wage subsidies to workers in regions enforcing level 3 or 4 of the multi-tiered public activity restrictions (PPKM). The aid is still limited to formal workers. BP Jamsostek funds need to be more evenly distributed to workers who have been impacted by the pandemic but are not yet on the BP Jamsostek registry.