Part-time PPPK teachers to become full-time, NTB provincial government awaits central directive
The Provincial Government of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) is awaiting implementing guidelines (juklak) and technical guidelines (juknis) regarding the planned conversion of part-time Government Employee with Work Agreement (PPPK) teachers to full-time PPPK status. In addition, full-time PPPK teachers are also set to be appointed as civil servants (PNS).
“We are waiting for the juklak and juknis regarding this matter from the central government. Hopefully they will be issued soon,” said Head of the NTB Regional Civil Service Agency (BKD), Tri Budi Prayitno, also known as Yiyit, on Friday (21/8/2026).
Beyond the restructuring of employment status, the salary financing scheme for PPPK teachers is also being discussed for changes. To date, salaries have been borne by the Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD).
There is a plan for teacher salaries to be fully transferred to the State Budget (APBN) through the relevant ministry. According to Yiyit, this scheme would ease the region’s fiscal burden and align with the target of controlling NTB’s personnel expenditure in 2027 to a maximum of 30 percent.
“Certainly it would ease the burden. We await the official details from the central government on what the scheme will look like,” Yiyit added.
Head of the NTB Education, Youth and Sports Office (Dikpora), Samsul Hadi, assessed that the change in status from part-time PPPK teachers to full-time PPPK teachers is a breath of fresh air for the regional government. Currently, there are around 2,240 part-time PPPK teachers and 5,791 full-time PPPK teachers within the NTB provincial government.
“Our hope is certainly that all part-time teachers in NTB, particularly those 2,240 people, can be automatically accommodated as full-time PPPK teachers,” said Samsul.
On the other hand, Samsul said the selection mechanism for PPPK to become civil servants will remain based on capability competition tests. However, he assured that teachers who do not pass the civil servant selection will not be laid off.
“No one will be laid off; they will continue teaching. Basically, NTB is still experiencing a shortage of teachers,” Samsul added.
Samsul acknowledged that the distribution of teaching staff in NTB is currently uneven. A number of general subjects at the senior high school level, such as natural sciences and social sciences, have an excess of teachers, while vocational schools are experiencing a crisis of teaching staff.
“We are very short of productive teachers in vocational high schools. For general subject teachers, we actually have a surplus,” Samsul explained.