YANI, a teacher at State Senior High School Kokbaun in South Central Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, has grown anxious after hearing about plans to reduce the number of contract-based government employees (PPPK). As a non-civil servant teacher, she fears losing her job, her sole source of income. She also worries about the policy’s impact on her students. “Education is a basic service. If teachers are sent home, the impact will be enormous