medcom.id, Jakarta: The government had revised or extended the time limit of deposit fund liquidation for "Jaminan Hari Tua" (JHT) program, an insurance program managed by the Social Security Management Agency (BPJS) of Employment. Even though it has already been regulated, there are some refusing the changes of the liquidation policy.
The revision or extension of time limit on the deposit fund liquidation in JHT program is written in the Government Regulation (PP) No. 46 Year 2015 on Social Security signed by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on June 30. The new regulation was applied since July 1, 2015, as the decree explained the revision of time period from the previous five years and a month to ten years.
The Director of Employment BPJS Elvyn G. Masassya admitted the revision of the time limit for deposit fund liquidation of the JHT program. The extension is hoped to improve the welfare of employees.
"JHT principal is a deposit account for retirement days. So that if an employee entered retirement, he/she will have enough fund to live decently," Elvyn said when contacted by Metrotvnews.com, in Jakarta, Thursday (7/2/2015).
Elvyn added that the regulation of deposit liquidation time limit on the JHT program to ten years is written in the Employment BPJS Law and Government Regulation on Social Security. Meaning, the organization should comply with the regulated instructions.
"With longer time period, the accumulation of fund to be received by the employee will increase," Elvyn said.
However, the policy applied by Employment BPJS will not be activated swiftly. There were firm rejections, mainly from Indonesian labors. The revision of the policy was considered to be harmful to labors.
Indonesian Labor Movement (GBI) rejected the new regulation on the extension of JHT program to ten years. Additionally, the amount of money to be retrieved is only 10 percent of the total fund, as the remaining will be available if the employee reaches 56 years old.
"It is detrimental to labors, as labors sacked from their jobs have to wait for many years to collect their rights," affirmed the President of Indonesian Workers Union Confederation (KSPI) Said Iqbal at Gedung Joang 45, Central Jakarta, Thursday July 2.
Aside from that, he also deplored the regulation establishment, which excluded the participation of labor components. Moreover, the labors were not asked to discuss the new regulation.
"Therefore KSPI and GBI, along with all Indonesian labors have stated their stance, among others to apply for a Judicial Review (JR) to the Supreme Court," he threatened.
According to Iqbal, the government had also violated the constitution, with the demands of pension insurance signed by the president. "Politically, we will also urge the House of Representatives to use their interpellation right," he explained.
GBI is also threatening to conduct national strike to urge the government in revising the pension fund benefits and JHT fund liquidation to be collected by labors.
"We will do a national strike movement prior to religious holiday to urge the government in applying 60 percent pension benefits from final salary and JHT fund liquidation with the minimum of 80 percent of the deposit fund, and not 10 percent of the fund," he concluded. (EPS)
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