Many Street Vendors Have Been Threatened With Fire As A Result Of The 56-year-old Age Restriction, PKS Asked The Governor Heru To Give Training

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JAKARTA - Secretary of the PKS Faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD Muhammad Taufik Zoelkifli is worried that many other employees of individual service providers (PJLP) will be fired due to the new rules of Acting (Pj) DKI Jakarta Governor Heru Budi Hartono.

Now, Heru has limited the age of PJLP DKI Jakarta employees to a maximum of 56 years. This is stated in the Governor's Decree (Kepgub) Number 1095 of 2022 concerning Guidelines for Controlling the Use of PJLP in the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government which was signed by Heru on November 1.

"Because the number of PJLP is a lot, for example there is a full-time job, it is a bit worrying," Taufik said when contacted, Wednesday, December 14.

Taufik admitted that he had questioned the rules for limiting the age of PJLP to the ranks of the DKI Provincial Government. He received an answer that the restriction followed up on regulations from the Ministry of Manpower after the Job Creation Law.

"The consideration is from the (Ministry of Manpower). In general, the productive period has a biological age, you can't just keep working," said Taufik.

Therefore, to help maintain the economic condition of PJLP employees who are threatened with being unemployed, Taufik asked Heru to provide skills training to them.

"It's better if it's possible that what's turned on is job training for old age or like investment training, or what, to them," he said.

In Kepgub 1095/2022, Heru added to the rules for limiting the maximum age of PJLP from the provisions contained in Governor Regulation Number 212 of 2016 concerning Guidelines for Management of PJLP issued by the former Governor of DKI Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok).

"Other Individual Service Providers are at least 18 years old, 56 years at most," wrote Heru in Governor Decree 1095/2022.

Judging from the rules, it is stated that PJLP is people who are obtained through the process of selecting the procurement of service providers and binding themselves through binding for a certain period of time to support the implementation of the duties and functions of regional apparatus or work units except for educators, education staff, and PJLP at regional public service agencies.

The scope of PJLP includes PPSU, casual daily workers, workers with certain time work agreements (PKWT), and similar workers who are under contract.