Fate of 1.2 Million CASN Awaits President Prabowo's Decision

JAKARTA, KOMPAS - The fate of 1.2 million prospective civil servants is now in the hands of President Prabowo Subianto. Previously, the appointment of CPNS was simultaneously postponed to October 1, 2025, and PPPK to March 1, 2026.

Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (PAN RB) Rini Widyantini stated that the issue of CASN has already been reported to President Prabowo Subianto. Rini was met at the Presidential Palace Complex, Jakarta, on Monday (10/3/2025), following a closed meeting regarding public schools.

"It has been reported to the President. There will be a Presidential decision, yes," he said briefly while getting into a car and quickly leaving the journalists, while his staff blocked reporters who were trying to obtain information regarding the continuation of this CASN appointment.

As previously reported, the appointment of CASN, both civil servant candidates (CPNS) and government employees with work agreements (PPPK), has been postponed from the initial plan in 2025. The appointment of CPNS has been rescheduled to October 2025, from the original plan of February 22 to March 23, 2025. The appointment of PPPK candidates, which was initially scheduled for June 2025, has been postponed to March 2026. According to data from the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform, this CASN consists of 248,970 CPNS and 1,017,111 PPPK candidates.

The postponement of this schedule is said to be the result of an agreement reached during a working meeting and a hearing of Commission II of the House of Representatives (DPR) with the Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (Menpan and RB) Rini Widyantini, as well as the Head of the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) Zudan Arif Fakrulloh, at the Nusantara Building, Jakarta, Wednesday (5/3/2025).

However, the Deputy Chairman of Commission II of the House of Representatives from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (F-PDIP) faction, Aria Bima, stated that the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (Kemenpan and RB) misinterpreted the conclusions of the meeting with Commission II of the House of Representatives. In the meeting, he said, there was no decision by Commission II of the House of Representatives and the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform that the recruitment of civil servant candidates (CPNS) in all agencies must be conducted simultaneously in October 2025 and the recruitment of government employees with work agreements (PPPK) in March 2026.

On the other hand, Rini assured that there was no misunderstanding regarding the results of the meeting with Commission II of the DPR. In addition, there are still several reasons why the appointment of CPNS will be held simultaneously on October 1, 2025.

First, so far, she has seen the determination of the starting date (TMT) for each agency differ so that civil servants in one batch sometimes do not have the same TMT. The second reason is a technical factor. Rini said that a number of agencies still need time to align their CPNS data.

It has been reported to the President. There will be a presidential decision, yes.

Until now, there are several agencies that have not submitted complete CPNS data to BKN. In fact, there are regions that have requested a delay or postponement of the TMT for CPNS appointments because they still need time to adjust, especially since regions have just completed the regional election.

The postponement of CASN appointment has implications for the lives of these CASN. Because, generally they have resigned from their previous jobs and have no income.

This triggered a reaction from the National Human Rights Commission or Komnas HAM which asked the government to immediately provide certainty regarding the policy of postponing the appointment of prospective state civil servants or CASN to become state civil servants or ASN.

Komnas HAM member Anis Hidayah assessed that the government certainly has its own considerations for postponing the appointment of CASN. However, because it impacts the livelihoods of 1.2 million people, Komnas HAM considers it important to provide certainty about their fate.

"It is important for the government to provide certainty about how long this delay will last? Then, is it true that this is a delay or elimination of ASN, it must be firm. Because, certainty is very important for the fate of millions of people who are in a situation where finding work is not easy in Indonesia," said Anis, Monday (10/3/2025).

If their fate is not clear, there is the potential for human rights violations, where they have the potential to become temporarily unemployed because they previously had jobs, but had to resign because they were accepted as CASN.