"The state will be disadvantaged if civil servants who have been educated, trained and possess technical as well professional skills are to retire while they are still in productive age," Paskalis Kossay of the Golkar faction in the House of Representatives (DPR), said here on Tuesday.
He said that people aged above 50 years, particularly up to 58 years, tended to be more wise in taking decisions. "So, it is a pity to let them go. They should be used. This is happening in countries where people`s life expectancy and quality have become longer and improved," he said.
In the meantime, Sutan Bathoegana of the Democrat Party (PD) faction said in separate occasion that he supported the idea to extend the pension period for employees. But he said that it was only for those who had a special skill.
"Those who could have their retiring period be extended are only those who have special skills," he said.
He said that for those who had no special skills the retiring period should remain as it was today in order to let the regeneration process to proceed toward the creation of prosperous, clean and prestigious people.
The two made the comments in response to the statements of Hermawan Sulistiyo, researcher of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Ismeth Abdullah economist of the University of Indonesia and H Soekarwo, East Java governor, about the need for civil servants to have their retiring period be extended.
Soekarwo earlier told the press that he was suggesting the extension of the retiring period of civil servants from at the age of 56 to 58 years old.(*)
(A014/HAJM)
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