Gratuities are gifts in a broad sense which include money, goods, rebates (discounts), commissions, interest-free loans, travel tickets, lodging facilities, travel tours, free medical treatment, and other facilities. These gratuities are either received domestically or abroad and are made using electronic means or without electronic means.
Basically, the legal origin of the gratification is permissible, but it must be completed or reported so that the legal status of the goods/gifts becomes clear and clear. As explained in Permendikbud 29 of 2019 concerning Control of Gratification in the Ministry of Education and Culture articles 3,4, and 5 regarding the categories of gratification received the explanation is as follows:
1. Gratuities that must be reported
- Gratuities to influence policies/decisions/treatment of authorities, including those with conflicts of interest;
- Gratuities in the context of official visits; and
- Gratuities in the process of recruitment/promotion/transfer of officials or employees.
2. Gratuities that must not be reported
- Giving due to family relationship, namely grandfather/grandmother, father/mother/parents-in-law, husband/wife, children/daughter-in-law, grandchildren, in-laws, uncle/aunt, brother/sister/brother-in-law, cousin, and nephew, as long as there is no conflict of interest;
- Giving gifts or signs of love in the form of money or goods that have a selling value in organizing a wedding, birth, aqiqah, baptism, circumcision, cutting teeth, or other traditional/religious ceremonies with a value limit per giver in each event of a maximum of IDR 1,000,000. (one million rupiah);
- Giving related to the disaster or disaster experienced by the Gratification recipient, father/mother/parents-in-law, husband/wife, or child, maximum IDR 1,000,000 (one million rupiahs) per gift per person
- Etc.
Then how do you report if you receive an alleged gratification? there are several ways to report gratuities;
- Report to the Gratification Control Unit (UPG) of each work unit when it has been established
- Report directly through an application that can be downloaded via android, namely GOL KPK