Mahfud MD Promises To Remove Work Applicants' Age Limits

PASURUAN - Candidate for vice president number 3 Mahfud MD said he and presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo promised to remove the age limit for job applicants if they are elected to win the 2024 presidential election.

Mahfud stated this after visiting the DarutTahid Canga'an Bangil Islamic Boarding School in Pasuruan Regency, East Java, Friday, in response to a job vacancy at a bank that sets a maximum age limit for 24-year-old applicants.

"If it is only a ministerial decision or maybe the decision of the governor of BI (Bank Indonesia), it will be easier for the government to invite changes. It's just a revision of the law (UU) or something," Mahfud said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, January 12.

However, he did not promise to remove the age limit for job applicants to run quickly even though it was regulated in the law.

"If that's the law, the process is old; (but) we will discuss it again," said Mahfud.

The Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs admitted that he had not heard of any regulations discussing the age limit for applying for a job.

"I haven't heard of it. Maybe it's the BI governor's decision, right?" he said.