Data on the improvement of the appointment of honorary personnel in 2020 is confirmed to be in the hands of the Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucracy Reform.

Now, the appointment of 20 thousand honorary employees in Papua, just count the time. Honorary personnel are asked to be patient pending appointment.

"Data on the improvement of Papuan honorary employees has been submitted to the Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucracy Reform, on Tuesday, January 26, 2021. Data has also been entered into the State Personnel Agency (BKN)".

"Furthermore, just waiting for answers from the Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucracy Reform and State Personnel Agency," explained Head of Papua Regional Staffing Agency (BKD) Nicolaus Wenda in Jayapura, Thursday (1/28/2021).

According to Nicolaus, currently the problem is the data on the improvement of honorary employees whose numbers are increasingly "bloated", while the quota given by the center is only as many as 20 thousand formations.

Where from the repair data, there are about 64 thousand more honorary employee data proposed by the provincial government as well as districts and cities.

"Especially for the province, there are about 8 thousand honorees proposed. Then added proposals from 26 regencies / cities in Papua. While the other three areas namely Puncak Jaya Regency, Lanny Jaya and Mamberamo Tengah have not entered".

"When asked why it escalated we do not know for sure. As for the three districts that have not submitted proposals have tried to contact but there is no answer. So that later what will be the fate of the honorary in the three areas, become the affairs of the local government," he said.

While asked if there would be additional quotas related to the improvement data that has been added, he said it depends on the policies of the central government.

"If they have been appointed certainly has an implication on the issue of payroll. It means whether there will be any more honorary admissions, it is back to the government".

"The point is that if the administration is handled by the central government I think it doesn't matter. But if their salaries become the responsibility of the local government, then that is the difficulty," he said.