Teachers asked to propose for extra allowance

Atambua, NU Online
The district administration of Belu, East Nusa Tenggara, told school teachers in frontier areas sharing border with East Timor in Belu to submit their proposal for special allowance in 2013.<>

The Belu district education, youth affairs and sport office (PPO) is preparing data about the number of teachers entitled to the special allowance in the area to be sent to the education ministry in Jakarta," head of the district PPO Patrisius Asa said here on Saturday.

"The Belu PPO serves only to submit the proposals by teachers meeting a certain criteria set by the education ministry," Patrisius said as quoted by Antara news agency.

He said the funds would be sent directly to the accounts of the recipients not via the district PPO office.

"A teacher with the status of civil servant is entitled to special allowance of as much as his basic salary and non civil servant teacher will receive an allowance of Rp1.5 million per month," he said.

Patrisius said the special allowance is important that the teachers feel that the government appreciates their services in isolated areas.

"It is important especially for those assigned in border areas to give them greater motivation in carrying their duty," he said.

He said there are still teachers in frontier areas and prone to natural disasters such as South Belu had not received such incentive.

"They feel they have been treated with injustice," he added.

He said in 2012, there were 2,095 teachers in the border areas between Indonesia and East Timor in the district Belu receiving special allowance.

"They included teachers with the status of civil servant and those having no such status," he said.

Editor : Sudarto Murtaufiq