House Commission X Calls for All Teachers to Become Civil Servants and Rejects Short-Term Solutions

Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission X, Lalu Hadrian Irfani, has called on the government through the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen) to make all teachers civil servants (PNS) in accordance with the criteria, and to avoid short-term solutions for addressing the issue of honorary teachers. He views the Circular Letter (SE) of the Minister of Basic and Secondary Education Number 7 of 2026 on the Assignment of Non-Civil Servant Teachers (Non-ASN/Honorary) in education units organised by local governments, which guarantees the payment of honorary teachers’ salaries during the assignment period until 31 December 2026, as a short-term solution. “If the name is changed to Non-ASN, ensure that their rights are not neglected. The continuity of their status must also be resolved immediately; make them all PNS, of course in accordance with the criteria,” Lalu said in Jakarta on Monday. The government, he said, must accurately recount the number of teacher needs and availability throughout Indonesia, both ASN and Non-ASN teachers. The state must be present to ensure that teacher management policies do not create uncertainty and do not have a negative impact on the future of educators. “In the future, there must be one national teacher status, namely PNS. There will be no more PPPK teachers or part-time PPPK,” he said. According to him, unifying teacher status under one national scheme will make education governance more effective and integrated. With that system, he believes the central government can fully take over the recruitment process, distribution, career development, and improvement of teacher welfare more evenly across all regions of Indonesia. He hopes that the step to eliminate teacher clustering and implement one national recruitment system can become a long-term solution to improve the fate of teachers in Indonesia while enhancing the quality of national education. “Teachers are the main foundation of Indonesia’s human resource development. Therefore, the state must provide certainty of status, career, and equal welfare for all teachers,” he said.