"The president, vice president and the DPR leadership, which includes the House speaker and his deputies, among other things discussed the bill on the formation of a Social Security Management Agency (BPJS)," presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said at the State Palace here on Wednesday.
The presidential spokesman declined to disclose details of the matters discussed at the meeting between the president and the House leadership. He only said that the deadline for the deliberations on the bill would be reached soon.
"The House will explain it. I think we should just wait for it together," Julian said.
The meeting between the president and the House leadership took place behind closed doors for two hours beginning at 10 a.m.
Earlier, the House`s BPJS Special Committee and the government in a working meeting agreed to submit a proposal to the DPR plenary that the time-line for deliberations on the bill be extended to the DPR`s next sitting.
"The DPR`s Special Committee on the bill and the government agreed to propose to the plenary that the time allotted for deliberations on the bill be extended to the House`s next sitting," chairman of the House`s Special Committee, Ahmad Nizar Shibah, said here on Sunday night.
Ahmad was reading out the conclusions of the working meeting between the government and the House special committee.
The other conclusion of the working meeting was that the government had accepted the report of the working committee on the bill on the social security management agency.
"The Special Committee and the government agreed to accept the report of the working committee on condition that point 2g of the report should be dropped," Ahmad said.
Point 2g concerns the transformation of four state-owned social security firms, namely PT Taspen, PT Asabri, PT Askes and PT Jamsostek.
The transformation of the four state-owned companies had sparked polemics and was rejected by a number of interest groups in society.(*)
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Editor: Ruslan Burhani
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