"RUU Sisdiknas ensures that teachers who have received professional allowance, both state civil apparatus and non-state civil apparatus, will continue to receive professional allowances until retirement," the Head of the Educational Standards, Curriculum and Assessment Agency (BSKAP) of the ministry, Anindito Aditomo, said here on Sunday.
He explained that teachers who had not yet received professional allowances and are currently not certified yet would receive income, including allowances, in accordance with the law on civil apparatus.
Meanwhile, for teachers in private schools who have not received professional allowances, the government will increase the school operational assistance (BOS) fund to allow school's management to give higher salaries to teachers and improve its human resource management.
With the arrangement proposed in the bill, teachers who have not received professional allowances will soon be able to get higher incomes without having to wait too long for the Teacher Certification Program (PPG).
The ministry is striving to help all teachers have a decent income.
Currently, he said, teachers must queue to join the PPG program to be certified and get higher salary.
"This is what we must correct. All teachers who do their duties as teachers should automatically get a decent income, without having to queue for PPG and wait for certification first," he stressed.
The government has proposed the designation of RUU Sisdiknas as a priority bill for this year's National Legislative Program to the House of Representatives.
The bill would integrate three existing laws regulating national education, Aditomo previously informed in a written statement received here on Friday.
The three laws that would be replaced by the National Education System Bill are Law Number 20 of 2003 on the National Education System, Law Number 14 of 2005 on Teachers and University Lecturers, and Law Number 12 of 2012 on Higher Education, he said.
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