Elderly People Issues in Indonesia: Determinant of Working Elderly in Demographic Transition
摘要
Demographic transition in Indonesia resulted in increasing the proportion of elderly population. Population aging is becoming a demographic challenge in many parts of the world. The issue becomes a challenge is the existence of an increasingly elderly workforce. This study aims to determine some key factors of the elderly population still working. The elderly population who are still working is the unit of analysis and uses The National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) 2020 data. The analysis uses binomial logistic regression. More than half of the elderly are still working. The education, marital status, sex, place of residence, disability, number of household members, head of household, ID number, recent migrant status have a significant relationship with the working elderly population. The elderly population with normal physicality tends to work 14.7 times compared to those with disabilities. This supports the conceptual framework of productive and active aging approaches for the workforce of the elderly population as an asset that is physically and mentally capable of meeting its needs. Government policies both central and regional related to the productive elderly population who are still working are needed in terms of ability development, skills, health insurance so that the productivity of the elderly population is maintained.