House to go on with domestic worker protection bill

JakartaPost-Mar 15, 2023

The leadership of the House of Representatives has vowed to kickstart its deliberation on the long-awaited domestic worker protection bill in the current sitting session as lawmakers returned from recess on Tuesday. Deputy House Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad said that schedule arrangements for the domestic worker protection bill deliberations would be discussed on Tuesday afternoon by House leadership after the plenary session. House Speaker Puan Maharani has previously come under fire for citing a conclusion of the House leadership’s meeting two years ago that agreed not to press ahead with deliberating the domestic worker protection bill as a reason not to kick-start efforts to introduce the long-awaited legislation under her leadership. In mid-January, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo appealed to the House to speed up deliberations on the bill as he pledged to provide better protections for the country’s 4 million domestic workers. The President has assigned the Law and Human Rights Ministry and the Manpower Ministry to coordinate efforts to ensure the bill’s timely passage. Civil groups were quick to welcome Jokowi’s move, hoping it would break the 19 years legislative stalemate. Read more at:

https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2023/03/15/house-to-go-on-with-domestic-worker-protection-bill.html.