Jakarta, NU Online
The government has assured teachers they will receive professional allowances promised to them even though there is not yet a strong legal basis for the payments to be made.
National Education Minister Bambang Sudibyo said the funds were only made available through a ministerial regulation he issued in 2007, but added any teachers who pass the certification process will still qualify for the monthly payments as the regulation currently states.<>
The minister was speaking to the press after meeting at the State Palace, Jakarta, with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday before the President left for London to attend the G20 Summit.
Yudhoyono, who will contest for a second term in the July 8 presidential election, was apprehensive about growing concerns among the country’s 2.7 million teachers that government allowances would be discontinued.
Recently, the Finance Ministry issued a circular announcing that the payment of professional allowances would be temporarily halted if the government failed to issue either a presidential or governmental regulation to provide a stronger legal basis for the policy by the end of June.
“The spirit of the circular was to speed up the completion of the governmental regulation on lecturers and the presidential regulation on professional allowances. It was not at all supposed to express an intention to annul [the allowance policy],” Bambang said, as quoted by The Jakarta Post.
“Professional allowances for teachers and lecturers under the National Education Ministry have been paid despite the absence of a presidential regulation because the finance minister permitted the funds be sent out under a mere ministerial regulation,” he added.
Bambang said the government was completing the draft for the much-awaited regulation and would endorse it before June.
He called for this matter to not be “politicized”, claiming that the policy had nothing to do with the upcoming legislative and presidential elections.
The policy has been enacted since the endorsement of a 2005 law on teachers and lecturers.
Teachers should not be concerned that the policy would be scrapped by the post-election government, he said.
“I’m fully aware that some major policies will not be continued by the President or my successor... But it [teacher allowance policy] has been stipulated by law and will not be easily changed,” Bambang said.
He also guaranteed that funds would soon be distributed to teachers and lecturers through the Religious Affairs Ministry.
Religious Affairs Minister Muhammad Maftuh Basyuni circulated letters ordering local religious affairs agencies to mmediately pay the allowances to teachers in their area. (dar)
The government has assured teachers they will receive professional allowances promised to them even though there is not yet a strong legal basis for the payments to be made.
National Education Minister Bambang Sudibyo said the funds were only made available through a ministerial regulation he issued in 2007, but added any teachers who pass the certification process will still qualify for the monthly payments as the regulation currently states.<>
The minister was speaking to the press after meeting at the State Palace, Jakarta, with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday before the President left for London to attend the G20 Summit.
Yudhoyono, who will contest for a second term in the July 8 presidential election, was apprehensive about growing concerns among the country’s 2.7 million teachers that government allowances would be discontinued.
Recently, the Finance Ministry issued a circular announcing that the payment of professional allowances would be temporarily halted if the government failed to issue either a presidential or governmental regulation to provide a stronger legal basis for the policy by the end of June.
“The spirit of the circular was to speed up the completion of the governmental regulation on lecturers and the presidential regulation on professional allowances. It was not at all supposed to express an intention to annul [the allowance policy],” Bambang said, as quoted by The Jakarta Post.
“Professional allowances for teachers and lecturers under the National Education Ministry have been paid despite the absence of a presidential regulation because the finance minister permitted the funds be sent out under a mere ministerial regulation,” he added.
Bambang said the government was completing the draft for the much-awaited regulation and would endorse it before June.
He called for this matter to not be “politicized”, claiming that the policy had nothing to do with the upcoming legislative and presidential elections.
The policy has been enacted since the endorsement of a 2005 law on teachers and lecturers.
Teachers should not be concerned that the policy would be scrapped by the post-election government, he said.
“I’m fully aware that some major policies will not be continued by the President or my successor... But it [teacher allowance policy] has been stipulated by law and will not be easily changed,” Bambang said.
He also guaranteed that funds would soon be distributed to teachers and lecturers through the Religious Affairs Ministry.
Religious Affairs Minister Muhammad Maftuh Basyuni circulated letters ordering local religious affairs agencies to mmediately pay the allowances to teachers in their area. (dar)
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