The retirement age for civil servants should be extended to 65, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said, urging the unity government to consider the proposal seriously.
Speaking at the ministry's 2024 Excellent Service Awards Ceremony 2025 event on Tuesday (May 20), Azalina pointed out that the mandatory retirement age for judges is 65, with an optional six-month extension — a model she believes could be expanded to the broader civil service.
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Speaking at the ministry's 2024 Excellent Service Awards Ceremony 2025 event on Tuesday (May 20), Azalina pointed out that the mandatory retirement age for judges is 65, with an optional six-month extension — a model she believes could be expanded to the broader civil service.
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00:0010-10, Laksana di Titik, Kias Ibarat. Angkat tangan, Jumali 10. Doa ni pun, Selamat datang, kami ucapkan.
00:10Moga diiringi restu ilahi.
00:12Saya tak tahulah mungkin kerajaan Madani ni, mungkin nak naikkan umur persaraan, tak tahulah kalau naikkan umur persaraan.
00:19Yang sampai terlepas, saya pun minta maaf lah.
00:22Sekarang umur persaraan ialah 60 kan?
00:25Mungkin kalau kerajaan naik, mungkin 65, saya tak tahulah, hanya saya nak cakap tentang kemungkinan, tak tahulah bila.
00:33Tapi yang penting di sini, orang politik tak bersara, betul tak?
00:37Kalau orang politik bersara, susah lah juga nak bagi banyakkan khidmat cemelang.
00:43Pertama sekali, pada semua yang hadir, saya nak ucapkan tanya lah kepada yang dapat APC.
00:50Tepukkanlah pada semua.
00:51Saya dimaklumkan 157, iaitu 8% daripada jumlah pegawai-pegawai yang berada bersama bahagian hal gondong 6.
01:05Kemudian yang pencin ni, saya dimaklumkan 31 orang, betul?
01:10Jadi saya ucapkan tanya lah daripada yang pencin eh.
01:13Panjang umur, murah rezeki, kalau pergi umur haji tu ingat-ingatkan kami di sini, doa-doakan eh.
01:19Sebab orang pencin ni selalunya lepas pencin banyak yang, kata orang, mendekatkan diri lebih untuk beribadah.
01:26Jadi saya ucapkan kepada semua, selamat maju jayalah.
01:30Saya pun tak nak cakap banyak macam saya cakap muka nimah saya, tetapi saya nak maklumkan bahawa
01:35bagi bahagian hal gondong-gondong, kita ni memang banyak pendekatan yang baru telah kita wujudkan.
01:42Terutama sekali dengan kewujudan landscape reformasi institusi eh.
01:47Dulu di bawah bahayu, selalunya kita lihat lebih kepada peranan yang dimainkan oleh bahagian dasar.
01:54Dan hari ni diadakan satu tambahan, iaitu bahagian reformasi institusi.
01:59Kerana bagi kita di bahagian hal gondong-gondong, Jabatan Perdana Menteri eh,
02:03bukan sahaja dasar yang kita perlu lihat, dasar-dasar baru, tetapi juga kita perlu melihat kepada institusi-institusi yang ada di bawah
02:13eh, negara kita ni sejak mulanya kemerdekaan daripada tahun 1957.
02:17Ini sebagai contoh undang-undang lapuk eh, yang ada 2 ribu lebih, diikuti dengan beberapa pendekatan baru yang telah kita lakukan
02:26untuk menunjukkan tentang perubahan zaman yang kita kena sesuaikan undang-undang yang ada pada negara kita, pada zaman yang ada.
02:36Atau sebabnya sebagai mana saudara-saudara ingat, contohnya sebagai undang-undang online harms eh,
02:42yang kita bekerjasama dengan Kementerian Komunikasi.
02:45Dan banyak lagi yang perlu kita lakukan dan tahun ni insyaAllah, harapan saya dapat kita wujudkan pusat mediasi madani
02:51sebagai satu subdivision eh, daripada Alternate Dispute Resolution di bawah Bahyu,
03:01dengan kerjasama daripada AIAC eh.
03:05Saya dah pergi kata-kata tempat eh, di dunia, terutama sekali negara-negara ASEAN eh.
03:10Banyak apa ni, kementerian-kementerian undang-undang mereka, jabatan undang-undang mereka memang kagum
03:16dengan pendekatan yang telah dibuat oleh Kerajaan Madani melalui undang-undang iaitu bahagian halwa undang-undang.
03:23Jadi saya ucapkan tahniah kepada semua yang ada di sini, terutama sekali KP kita yang sentiasa menyokong eh,
03:31FASAFA dan juga VC yang diletakkan oleh kepimpinan negara yang maklumat Perdana Menteri ke-10
03:38dan objektif Kerajaan Madani untuk perubahan eh.
03:42Dan saya harap insyaAllah tahun depan lagi banyak kejayaan dapat kita tempuhi sebagai satu pasukan.
03:49Akhir sekali saya pun nak letak di sini tentang kerujutan Parliament Services Act yang kita wujudkan di bawah
03:58apa, pindahan daripada perlembagaan eh.
04:00Ini menunjukkan bahawa landscape negara kita akan berubah untuk kebaikan bagi rakyat dalam negara kita.
04:06That's why my speech was retirement, I was just commenting that maybe government should look at 65 years old lah.
04:12It's my personal view.
04:13Ohhhh.
04:14So, can we do story on that?
04:16Yeah, because you know why, active ageing lah, a lot of old people are very young lah.
04:21So, you know, and then I know, I think you have to check with the registry, I think the percentage of above 60 eh, dah makin banyak.
04:32I don't know, it's just that I was wondering because some of the offices when we met, still very young, still very active.
04:39It's just that they're 60 years old, because some countries are moving to 65 but not 70 lah.
04:44So, I was just, in my speech, I was commenting that maybe government should study the age of retirement.
04:50That's my personal view lah, not the cabinet.
04:52So, do you see that people also мне have to know about the reason why they had to speak to their problems?
04:57Nah, so I think that people actually are like helping them because they're 65.
05:01In some country, I was going to ASEAN and the law minister's law.
05:04Some of them is at 70.
05:07Some are at 65 and then they start at 70.
05:09It's just that they're all told that most of them experience is 40.
05:14So, today I have seen her young now.
05:16So, that's the reality.
05:18So, you can see that in the cabinet meeting, you can bring it?
05:20No, I can talk with them.
05:23Dato' Sui, you didn't have a chance to get to the age of 62?
05:27I don't know.
05:29I don't know whether my driving government will look at that.
05:31But I was just commenting.
05:32So, when I saw that age of 60, I still see that they are still young.
05:37So, it's a waste.
05:39That's my personal view.
05:40And Dato' said, you have to go to the age of 65?
05:42I think judges are 65, right?
05:4465?
05:45And then, plus 6.
05:46That is the judges' age.
05:4865 plus 6?
05:49Maksudnya, 65, kalau dia boleh extension, they are 65 plus 6 months.
05:53Oh, plus 6 months, not plus 6 months.
05:55So, bila saya jumpa banyak muti-muti ASEAN,
05:57diorang cerita hakim diorang pencin at 70.
06:00It's just a conversation.
06:02Kenapa?
06:03Maksudnya, they still think that the age is still considered young.
06:07It's just a comment on retirement.
06:09Okay, thank you.
06:13Good to know you, sir.
06:16So.
06:18Am I a lawyer like very helpful?
06:20I'm so confused where we might be.
06:21I would like a lawyer like