Retirees demand higher pensions

Retirees demand higher pensions

BANDUNG: Some 500 retired workers from train company PT Kereta
Api Indonesia's Java and Sumatra operations demonstrated at the
company's headquarters in Bandung on Monday, demanding higher
pensions.

The demonstrators, who wanted pensions on the same level as
those of retired civil servants, set on fire two PT Kereta Api
uniforms in protest.

The head of the Retired Train Company Workers Communication
Forum, Helmy Azis, said the workers' pensions were low and did
not take into account the years they spent at the company.

Marsino, 59, who became a company employee in 1966, received
only Rp 800,000 a month after working for PT Kereta Api for 29
years, Helmy said.

Company spokesman Noor Hamidi declined to comment about the
protesters' demands. -- JP