FAJAR.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Before leaving office, President Jokowi removed 196,424 structural positions in ministries, institutions and regional governments (Pemda).
Jokowi removed structural positions in central agencies and regional agencies as a form of simplification of the bureaucracy within government agencies.
A total of 99 central agencies, both ministries and non-ministerial institutions have simplified the organizational structure by removing 48,168 structural positions.
Meanwhile in regional agencies, as many as 148,256 positions have been given approval to be removed and simplified.
One of the central agencies that has simplified the bureaucracy 100 percent is the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes).
From the existing echelon III positions at the Ministry of Health, the number of 617 was cut to 98 echelon III. A total of 519 echelon III positions were removed.
As for echelon IV positions, which numbered 1,501, 1,295 were deleted and only 206 positions remained.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) simplified the bureaucracy with a percentage of 99 percent.
Previously, the number of echelon III positions in Kominfo was 138. The positions were deleted as many as 135 leaving only 3 echelon III positions.
Then the echelon IV positions which previously numbered 350 were trimmed and simplified to 3. Thus, 347 echelon IV positions in Kominfo were deleted.
Quoted from Pojoksatu.id from the menpan.go.id page, Monday 4 September 2023, the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) is accelerating bureaucratic reform as directed by President Jokowi.
