JAKARTA - Today's memory, four years ago, January 25, 2023, the Minister of Manpower (Menaker), Ida Fauziyah supports the acceleration of the enactment of the Draft Law on the Protection of Domestic Workers (RUU PPRT). The presence of the PPRT bill is considered important as a legal product to protect domestic workers.
Previously, PRT was often an important part of urban people's lives. Their energy from taking care of the house to taking care of children is needed. However, they are actually in a group that often comes into contact with discrimination and violence.
There is no doubt about the existence of PRT in urban life. The dilemma of the busy city makes PRT workers needed to do domestic work. Their energy is needed to clean the house. Sometimes also to take care of children.
As a result, without PRT they can't imagine how difficult life is. They have to do all the housework at once while pursuing a career. Problems arise. Their lives as PRT workers are often far from prosperous.
They are risking everything in their work. They leave time with their families to take care of other families. Not to mention the role of PRT is closely related to discrimination and violence. Their working hours are never clear.
There are also PRT who are often complicated by their own agencies. Their wages are cut and they have difficulty resigning from PRT jobs. All of these narratives make the PRT demand the government to care about their fate.
The PRT wants to work comfortably. The biggest hope is that the wages received are worthy. The PRT's desire is fully supported by all existing mass organizations - including mass organizations that defend women's rights. The PPRT bill has been proposed since 2006. However, the PRT bill has never received serious attention from the DPR.
This condition makes all mass organizations and PRT ask the government to seriously protect them in their work. Actions on the streets are often carried out so that the government wants to hear.
"Then later, for example, the appropriate working hours. If the labor law or labor law is (work) 8 hours a day. If there is a Domestic Workers Protection Law, they will get the rights to a decent working hours such as not being exploited. So far, PRT has no working hours," said the Executive Director of the Association of Small and Micro Business Female Companions (ASPPUK), Emi Astuti as quoted by the VOA website, December 22, 2022.
The desire of the PRT regarding the enactment of the PPRT Bill has reached the government. The Minister of Manpower, Ida Fauziyah himself is committed to encouraging the acceleration of the PPRT Bill so that it becomes a law on January 25, 2023. Ida considers that the enactment will later become the main basis for protecting domestic workers.
Ida views the government must help PRT. If not, PRT will continue to get discrimination until violence in their work environment. They will find it difficult to defend themselves if there is no legal basis to protect their jobs.
"With this PPRT Law, we can solve these issues related to domestic workers and have a very clear legal basis. If we can solve the problem of protecting domestic workers upstream, downstream will surely follow," said Ida as quoted by the Cabinet Secretariat website, January 25, 2023.
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