Pensions not paid

Pensions not paid

From Kompas

Every month retirees collect their pensions from PT Taspen (Civil Servants Savings and Insurance Company) at bank BRI Otista, East Jakarta. But on Oct. 5, 1994, the pensioners, who average 70 years old, were surprised to be told that their pensions could not be paid. Instead they were told to go to PT Taspen at Cempaka Putih in Central Jakarta.

This was a real shock to those old pensioners, as one can imagine. The reason for not paying the pension was that PT Taspen did not deliver the money to the bank as they normally do. BRI did not know what had happened and made no effort to find out.

Obviously, what the two offices did to the retired civil servants was not commendable. Some of them might not have had money for the transportation to Cempaka Putih.

AGUS S.

Jakarta