JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto said the Draft Law (RUU) on the Protection of Domestic Workers (PPRT) would soon be accelerated. He promised that the ratification would be carried out for about three months.
This was conveyed by Prabowo during a speech at the commemoration of International Labor Day or May Day in the Monas area, Central Jakarta, Thursday, May 1.
"We will soon pass the Household Workers Protection Bill," said Prabowo.
Prabowo admitted that he had heard from the Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, that the draft regulation was immediately discussed. Thus, the ratification of the draft legislation that has stalled for 20 years can be done in a short time.
"Next week this bill will be discussed soon," said the former Indonesian Minister of Defense.
"Hopefully we can fix this law for not more than three months," he continued.
Prabowo also talked about the law to protect marine workers to the ship industry. He said his party would take care of it after hearing input from the labor group.
"The advice from Mr. Jumhur (Jumhur Hidayat, Chairman of the Confederation of All Indonesian Trade Unions or KSPSI), workers in the fishing industry, ships, we will also soon ...," he said.
In addition, Prabowo has also prepared other gifts for the workers. Among them, by forming a National Labor Welfare Council.
SEE ALSO:
"What will consist of leaders of labor leaders throughout Indonesia. Their job is to study the condition of workers and advise the president which laws are not correct and do not protect workers," he said.
"Which regulations are not correct, they provide input to me and we will immediately fix them," he continued, which was then greeted by the masses of workers.
Another prize, Prabowo will also form a Task Force for Termination of Work (PHK). "We will not allow our people, workers to be laid off arbitrarily," said the former Danjen Kopassus.
"If necessary, we will not hesitate, the state will intervene," concluded Prabowo.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)
