Retirement age needs change

Retirement age needs change

From Kompas

The retirement age for civil servants is now divided into three categories. For echelon I bureaucrats (e.g. researchers/rectors) the age is 65, for echelon II (e.g. teachers/lecturers) 60 and for echelons III and IV (ordinary staff) 56.

I would like to propose that the three categories be reduced to two, comprising echelon I personnel at the age of 65 and echelons II, III and IV at 60. This is meant to avoid social envy among civil servants, while the population's life expectancy increases.

At 56, civil servants still have the capacity to perform their respective duties. Besides, they have to support family needs such as children's education, health care and housing costs.

The government is therefore expected to issue a regulation on the new retirement age division, which will certainly be welcomed with great delight by all civil servants.

AMIRUDDIN Padang, West Sumatra