We are continuing to encourage banks to speed up the process of channeling the subsidiesJakarta (ANTARA) - The government has confirmed that it has channeled salary subsidies to 11,850,300 workers, or 97.37 percent of the targeted 12.2 million workers as of October 2020.
“We are continuing to encourage banks to speed up the process of channeling the subsidies,” Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah said here on Tuesday.
The salary subsidies have been disbursed in five stages: with subsidies reaching 2,485,687 workers (99.43 percent) in the first stage, 2,981,533 workers (99.38 percent) in the second stage, 3,476,361 workers (99.32 percent) in the third stage, 2,579,703 workers (97.20 percent) in the fourth stage, and 427,016 workers (69.03 percent) in the fifth stage.
The subsidy for each worker amounts to Rp2.4 million, and is meant to be transferred to the worker’s account in two tranches of Rp1.2 million.
The first round of salary subsidies has been deposited in the accounts of workers in five stages. The Manpower Ministry will evaluate the realization of salary subsidies before disbursing the second round of subsidies, Fauziyah said.
“We are targeting to disburse the second round of salary subsidies at the end of October, 2020, or in early November at the latest,” she informed.
The salary subsidy program was earlier projected to target 15.7 million workers registered with the Workers Social Security Agency (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan) with a monthly salary of less than Rp5 million. However, the number of workers registered with the BPJS Ketenagakerjaan had reached 12,272,731 until the deadline for the channeling of salary subsidies.
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Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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