Since the Democratic Progressive Party swept into power last May翻譯社 President Tsai Ing-wen has made reforming Taiwan's archaic pension system a government priority.
"For me, it's understandable that older colleagues who are about to retire want to take a position of resisting the government's reforms," Chou said.
Politicians in the past balked at diffusing the crisis, aware their policy choices could very well blow up in their face.
TAIPEI翻譯社 Taiwan -- No recent social issue has better demonstrated the fracturing potential of Taiwan's economic woes, its looming demographic crisis and its generational divide than that of pension reform.
One video clip published on Facebook outlines the convoluted and closed-off process of policymaking.
Galvanized by Lin's open letter to the Tsai administration, Chou later became the organizations' spokesman for government-held discussion panels on pension reform.
Lin called on the new government to not only tackle pension reform but change the culture of the public bureaucracy.
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"Traditionally, the only thing demanded of civil servants was that they follow orders. But we think that new modes of politics should be more bottom up in order to benefit the system as a whole. The TCSIC provides civil servants the space for policy discussions, skills training and a channel for voicing their opinions," Lin told The China Post.
But flying under the media's radar has been a younger generation of civil servants翻譯社 who not only want pension reforms to proceed, but also changes to the very definition of public service itself.
Finding Middle Ground
But Lin and like-minded members of the bureaucracy face an uphill task in mobilizing support among both colleagues and the public.
Faced with impending bankruptcy, the issue of propping up the convoluted funds has been framed across party lines as a ticking time bomb.
Chou Hsin (周鑫), a civil servant in Chiayi City翻譯社 said he only jumped on the issue when he saw the government's own actuary reports predicting that the whole public sector pension system would be bankrupt in 2031.
Lin said in an op-ed last month he was being monitored and vetted by an internal agency due to his participation in TCSIC.
He said that following a recording of a televised debate on a political commentary show, Lee Lai-hsi (李來希), a prominent critic of pension reform翻譯社 called him an idiot (Lin said he responded by calling Lee "very smart for having manipulated public opinion").
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The group say they want to make policymaking more transparent and streamlined, moving away from bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.
"Other young civil servants wanted a more radical approach: a clear division along generational lines to pursue reform objectives. But our viewpoint is different: a country's pension system is built on generations paying into it to support the next — so when we hear these opinions we have to take them into account and make adjustments accordingly," he said.
Just before the new government took power翻譯社 Lin Yu-kai (林于凱), a young civil servant who had served for five years, drafted an open letter to then-Premier-designate Lin Chuan.
He said he found it surprising how the "relatively well-educated civil servant cohort does not have the good judgment to stand up to fake news or rumors."
For him, it was a culture that was making the system unaccountable to the public, inefficient, unresponsive to social needs and at the mercy of political appointees. This desire by younger members of the civil service to reform from within gave way to the formation of the TCSIC.
In the video, the inefficiencies of the public policy process are assessed from day one翻譯社 when isolated groups formulate policy based on their own internal discussions. By the time the policy has been finalized and outsiders, including the media翻譯社 find out about its deficiencies, the group is forced to push through an alternative that is still unconvincing. The short clip ends by asking: "Everybody sees the problem with this: what can be done to save the government?"
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