BPN strengthens merit-based talent management

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) presented its talent management programme to the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) and pledged to strengthen its implementation with an emphasis on meritocracy.

“The quality of an institution is largely determined by the quality of its human resources,” Deputy Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning and Deputy Head of the National Land Agency Ossy Dermawan said in a statement in Jakarta on Friday.

Ossy said talent management was not merely a matter of complying with civil service management policy, but an institutional commitment that all parts of the ministry must implement consistently.

The ministry plans to strengthen talent management through four measures: securing leadership commitment to mapping the talent pool; reinforcing the role of the State Civil Apparatus Talent Committee; improving the integration and accuracy of talent data through SIASN (the State Civil Apparatus Information System) and SIMATA (the State Civil Apparatus Talent Management Information System), including the nine-box talent grid; and making employee career development more transparent.

“With more than 33,000 civil servants spread across Indonesia, the Ministry of ATR/BPN has a responsibility to ensure that every employee has the opportunity to develop and build a career based on their competence, performance and potential,” he said.

Ossy added that Minister Nusron Wahid had said from the outset that more than 80 per cent of the ministry’s services were public services. As a result, two areas needed improvement: systems and human resources.

“We also need direction and guidance from the BKN so that the talent management system we are building can be implemented properly,” he said.

BKN Head Zudan Arif Fakrulloh agreed that talent management was an important approach to preparing civil servants who were competent and suited to organisational needs.

He said that amid changes in government priority programmes and growth in the number of civil servants, human resources management needed to become more adaptable.

“Through talent management, we prepare civil servants with the quality and standards required to hold positions. Whoever the president or minister may be, we will already have begun preparing the civil servants. The BKN’s task is to prepare civil servants whose quality meets the standards for holding office,” Zudan said.