Teachers Urged to Be Patient, SPPG Officers Provided with Facilities

Public policy always reflects how the state views its priorities. When teachers are asked to walk or cycle to school for reasons of efficiency and healthy living exemplars, while SPPG officers are provided with electric motorcycles and appointed as PPPK, the public is rightly questioning where the justice lies in this. Teachers are the backbone of education, bearing academic, moral, and social responsibilities. However, in many cases, they are still urged to remain patient with limited facilities, mounting administrative burdens, and slow progress in status appointments. This narrative of patience has become a very familiar phrase in the ears of teachers across the country. On the other hand, SPPG officers receive far more concrete support. They obtain operational facilities in the form of electric motorcycles as well as PPPK status, which provides income certainty. The state certainly has reasons that public service programmes require mobility and effectiveness, but the visibly uneven policies genuinely provoke feelings of injustice in the field. If teachers still face basic limitations, providing facilities to other sectors without parallel improvements for teachers is difficult to justify morally. The principle of fairness in governance demands real consistency. In the context of public bureaucracy, Max Weber emphasised the importance of rationality and equality in administration. Every public position must be treated based on its function and contribution. Teachers hold a strategic role in human resource development, so policies towards them should be proportional and non-discriminatory. Education observer Arief Rachman has emphasised that education quality will not improve without real appreciation for teachers. Appreciation is not merely rhetoric but must be present in the form of welfare, work facilities, and clear career certainty. Data from the Ministry of Education shows that many honorary teachers still have not obtained permanent status despite teaching for years with limited income.