The number of active participants in the Workers Social Security Program (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan) has reached around 36 million nationally.

BPJS Ketenagakerjaan’s director of service Roswita Nilakurnia said that the number of active participants is currently increasing, in keeping with her party’s target of increasing the coverage to universal membership.

“Currently, there are around 36 million registered active participants. With non-active participants, we can have around 55 million participants,” she informed after attending the 45th anniversary of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan in Yogyakarta on Friday.

According to her, inactive members of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan still have a right to old-age insurance (JHT) that has not been disbursed.

Therefore, BPJS Ketenagakerjaan has prepared 175 contact centers to help participants, including non-active ones, to claim insurance, she added.

“Through this contact center and also our branch channel, we made an appeal, both directly and also as a contact via email, to remind that participants still have rights that can be disbursed if needed,” Nilakurnia informed.

She said that her party needs to reach the target of covering the entire workforce because, based on data from the Ministry of National Development Planning (PPN/Bappenas), the membership coverage needs to reach 90 million.

“Besides work insurance for civil servants, national police, and Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI), we must also be able to cover workers outside those sectors,” she said.

She informed that BPJS Ketenagakerjaan is a public legal entity mandated by the state for administering employment social security protection. Therefore, her party reminded all workers to get insurance protection.

“All Indonesian workers should be properly protected, and it is mandatory because it is indeed a mandate from the law to be protected by the employment social security program from all existing programs; it can be gradual, depending on the category of formal or informal,” she added.

Source: Antara News