The Marak Of ART Violence Cases, The 18-year-old PPRT Bill Should Be A Solution

JAKARTA - Member of Commission VIII DPR PKB Faction Luluk Nur Hamidah, asked for the Household Workers Protection Bill (RUU PPRT) to be ratified immediately. The reason is, it has been 18 years since the PPRT Bill was discussed by the DPR but has not been legalized (UU).

This was conveyed by Luluk highlighting various cases of violence and exploitation of household assistants that recently occurred.

"18 years of struggle to pass this bill, but the fate is not clear," Luluk said during the interruption at the plenary session of the closing session of the DPR, Thursday, December 15. In fact, he continued, on July 1, 2020, the Legislation Body of the DPR had agreed to be ratified into a plenary meeting. "But we don't know yet what caused the leadership of the DPR to be reluctant to bring this bill and ratified into the initiative bill," said Luluk.

The Central Java electoral district legislator admitted that he was concerned, as many as 4.2 million Indonesians who worked as household workers experienced a very bad situation. Starting from violence, exploitation, to poverty.

"They also experienced a very bad situation and we never even imagined it could be done and accepted by a human being," said Luluk. Therefore, he hopes that the PPRT Bill can be passed into law during the next DPR session. It is known, Polda Metro Jaya revealed that the woman with the initials SKH became a victim of beating her fellow Household Assistant (ART) in the ART torture case in Simprug, South Jakarta. Initially, the five fellow ART colleagues carried out the persecution on the basis of the employer's orders. The fellow ART colleague is said to have been used to torture SKH.

"The results of the examination were initially ordered by the employer, then ended up becoming his own habit and initiative by hitting," said Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya Police Commissioner Endra Zulpan during a press conference at Polda Metro Jaya, Wednesday, December 14.

SKH itself is an ART from Pemalang, Central Java, which began to receive persecution from September 18 to December 7, 2022. The problem started when the victim wore the wrong underwear belonging to his employer, the Constitutional Court. It turns out that SKH also often wears the wrong underwear belonging to another ART.

"The main problem is because the employer's underwear were swapped by SKH ART. So some of the other ART's pants were often swapped by the victim, that was the trigger," explained Zulpan.

His 64-year-old employer was furious when he found out that SKH was wearing his underwear. He then confiscated SKH's cellphone and beat him.

Apart from being beaten with a blunt object, said Zulpan, the victim was also handcuffed in a dog cage and was forced to eat the animal's dirt.