No raise in pension

No raise in pension

From Republika

Recent rumors that the salary and pension of civil servants
and pensioners respectively would be raised were gladdening,
particularly to latter group. It was also rumored that the raise
was retroactive from Jan. 1, 2001. However, we pensioners were
very disappointed when we received our July pension. Apparently,
the raise was only for working civil servants.

In the past, every time the government increased civil
servants' salaries, it also raised the pension of retirees. But
this time, under President Abdurrahman's administration, that was
not the case.

I would like to call on the President and his Cabinet not to
be occupied with maintaining President Abdurrahman's presidency
until 2004 but also pay attention to the poor, including retired
civil servants.

H. ABUBAKAR

Dompu, West Nusa Tenggara