Civil Servants Working from Home Urged to Activate Phones for Location Tracking
JAKARTA - Civil servants (ASN) working from home, or work from home (WFH), every Friday are requested to keep their phones active so that their locations can be known.
“To ensure that ASN are truly carrying out work from home and their handphones are also requested to be active so that their locations can be known through geolocation,” said Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian during a virtual press conference on Tuesday (31/3/2026).
Tito has issued Circular Number 800.1.5/3349/SJ on the Transformation of Civil Servant Work Culture in Local Government Environments on 31 March 2026.
In the regulation, ASN who are WFH must work from their homes or residences that are their domiciles.
Furthermore, Tito said the circular contains technical implementations of WFH for regional heads.
“This includes efforts to encourage digital services, electronic signing, and personnel management information systems as conveyed by the Coordinating Minister for the Economy,” he said.
“So, including leaders at the provincial level, for example, high-ranking positions at madya echelon one, then echelon two pratama, then emergency services, preparedness, public tranquillity and order, cleanliness and waste, population, licensing, health, education, regional income, and other public services,” Tito stated.
“The same applies to districts/cities, the difference is that for sub-district heads and village heads, they are excluded, meaning they still carry out working from office,” he added.
In addition to WFH matters, the same regulation also requests regional heads to carry out calculations of budget savings for each as an impact of this more effective and efficient work culture change.
“And those savings are used to finance local government priority programmes,” he continued.
According to Tito, the implementation of this circular must be reported to the centre and will be evaluated periodically.
“And this policy provision will be evaluated for two months,” he said.