WFH Policy: Civil Servants One Day Every Friday, What About the Private Sector?

The government has established a work-from-home (WFH) policy for one day per week for civil servants (ASN) every Friday. Several sectors are exempt from this policy.

“There are sectors exempted from WFH and required to continue working from the office or in the field,” said Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto during a virtual press conference on Tuesday (31/3/2026).

Airlangga detailed the exempted sectors, including health, security, and other strategic sectors.

“These include public service sectors such as health, security, and cleanliness. As well as strategic sectors like industry or production, energy, water, basic food and beverages, trade, transportation, logistics, and finance,” he stated.

Airlangga explained that this one-day-per-week WFH policy applies only to civil servants (ASN). The policy also aims to encourage digital-based service governance. It will take effect starting today, 1 April 2026.

WFH for ASN to Save Fuel

The WFH scheme for ASN is implemented every Friday. Friday was chosen because several ministries have already been practising it.

“Why Friday? Because some ministries have already been working four days a week using applications, this is post-COVID,” explained Airlangga during the virtual press conference.

Friday is also considered less busy than regular days. Airlangga views that government agency activities on Fridays are usually only half as busy as usual.

“We also chose Friday because on this day, it’s half as busy as Monday to Thursday,” stated Airlangga.

Even with WFH on Fridays, Airlangga emphasised that productive activities such as banking operations and capital markets will continue to run.

“But public services will continue to operate, and productive activities including banking, capital markets, and others will continue to run,” he concluded.