Badung Regent Slams 'Ghost Workers', Vows to Eradicate Idle Civil Servants by 2027
Badung Regent I Wayan Adi Arnawa has sharply rebuked employees within the Badung Regency Government who receive salaries without working optimally, or ‘makan gaji buta’ (ghost workers). To address this issue, the Badung administration plans to fully implement a performance allowance system (tukin) starting in 2027 as an instrument to discipline and even dismiss lazy state civil apparatus (ASN).
‘I do not want to hear of people being proud to be employees in Badung, staying at home for years but receiving a blind salary. People like that, I must eliminate through the system I will build,’ said Adi Arnawa during the inauguration of high-ranking pratama officials, administrators, and supervisors at the Badung Government Centre (Puspem) on Wednesday (24/6/2026).
The implementation of the system is designed so that ASN performance assessments are conducted objectively and fairly based on real individual contributions. The bureaucratic reform has also been coordinated by the Badung Regency Government with the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) Regional X.
‘When a person turns out not to meet the system as we have designed it, then I am sorry, they must leave all of us. Therefore, I ask the Regional Secretary, by 2027, and the Head of BKPSDM, we must start implementing it,’ Adi Arnawa stated.
The Badung Regency Government is targeting a simulation or trial of the new system to be running by the end of 2026. Under this scheme, the amount of the employee income improvement allowance (TPP) will depend on the fulfilment of performance and discipline aspects.
‘Performance is 70 per cent, discipline is 30 per cent. So if someone gets 7 million, the lowest I say, if they have no performance, it means their 7 million will become 5.9 million, gone,’ Adi Arnawa explained.
If the accumulation of an employee’s absence meets the minimum threshold for a serious violation within the system, strict sanctions in the form of dismissal will be imposed. Adi Arnawa assured that the system will operate automatically without being influenced by personal likes or dislikes.
‘It is not impossible that in the years to come, I will increase your TPP in line with revenue increases. Be afraid of the system we are going to build,’ Adi Arnawa stressed.
Adi Arnawa considers these firm measures urgent because the Badung Civil Service and Human Resources Development Agency (BKPSDM) has received several reports regarding employee disciplinary violations. Currently, the process of taking action against problematic ASN is entering the evaluation stage by a special team.
‘BKPSDM has several reports that have come in, regarding those who are indeed not disciplined. For that, steps will be taken based on the stages from the evaluation team, the evaluation team will proceed,’ Adi Arnawa clarified.
The disciplinary evaluation is led directly by the Regional Secretary of Badung Regency as the team chairman before the results are submitted to the regent. Based on the team’s review, the final decision regarding sanctions up to employee dismissal will be determined by the regent.
‘The leader is the Regional Secretary, who will conduct the evaluation. After that, it comes to me, and I will then make the decision,’ continued the PDIP politician.
Dismissal of indisciplined employees, according to Adi Arnawa, is not new within the Badung Regency Government environment. Throughout the period from 2025 to 2026, the local government has dismissed several employees proven to have committed serious violations.
‘I think I have, in the years 2025-2026, already carried out dismissals. There were several of our employees who clearly appeared to be, their indiscipline was truly proven. This will certainly serve as a lesson for other employees, as well as a deterrent effect for other ASN,’ concluded the former Badung Regional Secretary.