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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, called him an idiot (Lin said he responded by calling Lee "very smart for having manipulated public opinion").

A main area of contention has been the pace of which reforms are to take place. For example翻譯社 Lin fears that the gradual pace proposed by the government may not translate into a sustainable system, describing it as a temporary solution at best.

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.

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."

In January翻譯社 the Alliance for Monitoring Pension Reforms, made up of retired and working public servants as well as teachers and military veterans, staged a massive rally as social groups and government representatives concluded a pension reform conference seeking to draw consensus on key points, including lowering the income replacement ratio and phasing out the controversial 18 percent preferential savings rate.

One such group has been the Taiwan Civil Service Innovation Coalition (TCSIC, 公事革新力

Faced with impending bankruptcy, the issue of propping up the convoluted funds has been framed across party lines as a ticking time bomb.

Lin said in an op-ed last month he was being monitored and vetted by an internal agency due to his participation in TCSIC.

In the video翻譯社 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翻譯社 including the media, 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?"

One video clip published on Facebook outlines the convoluted and closed-off process of policymaking.

Members of the TCSIC have powered their message of questioning business as usual in the public sector through social media.

The challenge for those advocating reform has been building a consensus among civil servants

But flying under the media's radar has been a younger generation of civil servants, who not only want pension reforms to proceed, but also changes to the very definition of public service itself.

"Traditionally翻譯社 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翻譯社 skills training and a channel for voicing their opinions翻譯社" Lin told The China Post.

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"There are deliberate moves by some to frame this as a 'political stocktaking against civil servants' in order to frame this as an ideological issue involving the pan green and pan blues. This has transformed an issue about systemic problems into a war of words."

Chou, whose own family includes retired civil servants was initially asked why he wanted to involve himself in the issue.

Whereas older civil servants and retirees rally easily to the call of resisting cuts to their benefits, for many young people翻譯社 the pension issue seems like a distant problem full of obtrusive technical terms and legalese.

"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.

▲圖／翻攝自中國郵報