Extending TNI commander’s term of office still in process: President

Jakarta (ANTARA) – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said that the plan to increase the time period of workplace of Nationwide Protection Forces (TNI) Commander, Admiral Yudo Margono, continues to be in course of.

“It’s in progress,” Jokowi remarked throughout his go to to the Bali Mester Market to verify meals staples right here on Tuesday.

Earlier, there was a discourse on extending the TNI commander’s time period of workplace following a lawsuit submitted to the Constitutional Courtroom to problem the retirement age of TNI members, which is 58 years for officers and 53 years for non-commissioned officers.

Home of Representatives’ (DPR’s) Fee I Chairperson, Meutya Hafid, said that the choice to lift the TNI members’ retirement age is open, however she first invited the federal government to review it.

In the meantime, Margono, who will enter retirement age in November 2023, said that the extension of his time period of workplace is beneath the president’s prerogative proper.

Aside from him, Military Chief of Workers, Normal Dudung Abdurachman, can even flip 58 in November 2023. There was additionally a discourse on extending his time period of workplace.

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