Minister of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration, Abdul Halim Iskandar, has proposed changing the status of village assistant staff (TPP) to contract-based government employees (PPPK).

“I have asked the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister to provide an opportunity for TPP to have their status raised to PPPK,” he said at the Village Assistants Service Day event here on Friday.

According to the minister, the proposed change in status is part of efforts to ensure that village assistants continue to support the ministry in village community empowerment and development.

“Hopefully, next year, the data collection and mapping of TPP to become part of civil servants (ASNs) as PPPKs will start,” he said.

Iskandar noted that this year, the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform is collecting data on contract-based staff at ministries, agencies, and regional governments for the purpose of mapping ASNs.

“The good news is the contract of TPPs will not be affected by the policy of eliminating non-ASN workers in ministries, agencies, and regional governments in 2023,” he informed.

On that occasion, the minister also set October 7 as Village Assistants Service Day.

“I declare and set October 7 as Village Assistants Service Day,” he announced.

He said that the determination of the Village Assistants Service Day was contained in Ministerial Decree Number 110 of 2022 concerning Village Day.

“The establishment of Village Assistants Service Day is a form of appreciation as well as (meant) to praise the village assistant profession who has contributed to village development in the last six years,” he added.

October 7 was chosen as Village Assistants Service Day because the date marked the first time that village assistants were deployed to assist in Indonesia’s development, he said.

Source: Antara News