Indonesia: Domestic workers to hold nationwide strike

JAKARTA: Activists are calling on all household workers to stop working and march in the streets during the nationwide strike called for May 1-3 to push for the formulation and passage of the domestic worker law.

“This protest [is against] the government and the House of Representatives for not responding to our demands on the law,” Lita Anggraini, Domestic Workers Advocacy Network (Jala PRT) coordinator, said during a press conference on the domestic workers law on Monday in Jakarta.

Lita also said it was time for the government to respond to the list of demands issued by activists on Feb. 15.  “We have heard nothing concrete from the government.”

The activist made four demands: The ratification of the 1990 Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families; Revision of the 2004 Regulation on Migrant Worker Placement; the formulation and passage of the Domestic Workers Protection Law; and the government’s vote for the ILO Convention on Domestic Workers.

Source: Jakarta Post