Welfare of 638,000 Private Madrasah Teachers is Alarming, Here is DPR's Incentive Scheme Proposal

Deputy Chairman of Commission VIII of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Abidin Fikri, has proposed that the government, through the Ministry of Religious Affairs, provide special incentives to enhance the welfare of 638,000 private madrasah teachers who cannot be appointed as Government Employees with Work Agreements (PPPK) or civil servants. Based on a joint meeting with the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform, he stated that the appointment of these hundreds of thousands of private madrasah teachers is hindered by the provisions of Law No. 20 of 2023 on Civil Servants because they work in private madrasahs (private schools). “I think a breakthrough must be provided. Do not let the 638,000 madrasah teachers proposed by the Ministry of Religious Affairs to become PPPK or civil servants face a dead end, leaving them in limbo,” said Abidin in Jakarta recently. He offered a scheme for providing incentives to madrasah teachers, namely by calculating the incentives based on the ratio of the number of students in all madrasahs (Ibtidaiyah, Tsanawiyah, and Aliyah) and the length of service of the madrasah teachers. Abidin provided an illustration: if the ratio is one madrasah teacher to 15 students, then the total need for teachers can be calculated from the total number of private madrasah students in Indonesia. “Just calculate the number of students in all madrasahs in Indonesia and how many madrasah teachers receive incentives, with additional incentive values based on the length of their service,” he said.