JAKARTA, KOMPAS.TV – Increasing the absorption of the budget of the National Economic Recovery (PEN) program is the focus of the current government.
Various plans are being drafted in order to boost the wheels of the national economy again.
Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani said, one of the plans to be made to accelerate the absorption of the PEN budget is the provision of compensation for employees who work in the private sector.
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The plan, the government will provide compensation to private employees with salaries under Rp 5 million per month.
“The government is reviewing to prepare the provision of salary assistance to 13 million workers who have wages below Rp 5 million,” Sri Mulyani said, in a virtual press conference on Wednesday (05/08/2020), as quoted by Kompas.com.
To realize the plan, Sri Mulyani continued, the required budget will reach Rp 31.2 trillion.
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