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Indonesia Conditions of Service
Compensation of all ABRI personnel was on a sliding
scale
according to rank and was uniform throughout the country
and
among the services. It included, for both officers and
enlisted
personnel, housing for married personnel of appropriate
rank,
subsistence items and rations paid in kind, and a variety
of
allowances in addition to base pay.
Compensation for military personnel has increased
considerably since the 1970s, both in separate allowances,
such
as basic food allowances, and in basic pay. Military
compensation, especially for lower ranking or
nontechnically
trained personnel, was believed to compare favorably with
compensation in the civilian sector when extra allotments
were
figured in. Pay raises for the military paralleled raises
for the
entire civil service.
Officers' tours of duty were officially established at
three
years, but these limits were not strictly observed.
Retirement
age was mandatory for enlisted personnel at age forty-two
and for
officers at fifty-five. However, the president had the
authority
to grant an unlimited number of extensions on active duty
of one
year, usually to officers in key posts of the armed forces
leadership. Officers were eligible for small pensions at
age
forty-eight and those failing promotion to lieutenant
colonel had
to retire at that time. Two years before their retirement,
personnel could be placed on preretirement status in which
they
drew full pay and allowances while they began to develop
civilian
careers. Higher level retired personnel often worked in
the
government, in military-owned businesses, and in industry.
Many
lower ranking members were offered land under the
government's
transmigration program (see Glossary)
or have been given vocational training
(see Migration
, ch. 2;
Economic Benefits and the Transmigration Program
, ch. 3).
Data as of November 1992
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