Jakarta –
Deputy Chairman of the Gelora Party, Fahri Hamzah, highlighting the nominal salary of the village head (kades) which is only IDR 2 million per month. Fahri said that the salary of a lurah in DKI Jakarta reaches IDR 30 million per month.
This was conveyed by Fahri in the Adu Perspective collaboration discussion detikcom with Total Politics with the theme ‘Village Power Politics’, Wednesday (25/1/2023). Fahri initially said that various aspects in the village had to be improved, including the salaries of village officials.
“So you have to see that the village becomes an independent unit, it can be stronger than the state, income per capita villages can be stronger than the state, village development can be greater than the capital,” said Fahri.
“That’s why we see the village as a unit that we want to complete, the democracy is complete, the organization is complete, the government system is complete, the salary is also good,” he added.
Fahri then said that the village head’s nominal monthly salary of Rp. 2 million was unreasonable. Because in DKI, he said, lurah salaries reach tens of millions of rupiah.
“When the salary of a village head is 2 million, what’s crazy, while the salary of a village head in DKI is 27 million-30 million, they are not elected by the people,” he added.
Fahri then told me about one of his friends. Fahri said that before his friend became the village head, it was different when he became the village head.
Honorary then alluded to the dilemma of being the winner in the general election. According to him, after a person becomes an official, guests often visit his house.
“The name dilemma of elected official that, so that person if elected he has a successful team, he has voters, he has many guests. The house can’t be empty with coffee, it can’t be empty with sugar and tea,” he said.
“Then if his salary is 2 million a month, he’s ashamed to receive guests, while they can’t interfere with other funds,” he continued.
Therefore, there are various things that must be done to improve the village. He requested that the funds disbursed for village development be enlarged.
“Making village management optimal, the money must be large, so what we think about is not the apparatus. The first thing we think about is the village people, because we want it in a short time. Why don’t the villagers progress faster than the Jakarta people, why the heck?” he said .
“People already have digital technology, digital economy and so on, do not mind it village people are more powerful than us people in the city, therefore the money must also be equipped,” he concluded.
(lir/aud)
