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Compilation of regulations and references on domestic workers: Pocket book (in Bahasa Indonesia)
Contains regulations, ILO Convention, decrees of the Minister of Manpower, infographics and useful references on domestic workers.
Media award
ILO-AJI Jakarta Awarded Journalists on Domestic Workers and Child Domestic Workers
The ILO and the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Jakarta conducted a media award for best reportage on the protection of domestic workers and the elimination of child domestic labour in Indonesia on 23 November in Jakarta.
Launch of skills training initiative for domestic workers: Improving domestic workers’ job quality and standards
Domestic work is an important occupation in many economies worldwide but it remains unrecognised as “work’’ and virtually invisible form of employment in many countries. It is also generally seen as unskilled work, a natural extension of women’s...
Protection of domestic workers
Indonesia’s abused domestic worker to seek justice
For more than seven years, Marni Siti* (name has been changed), 22 years old, was kept as prisoner in the home of her employer, a mother of four, Mala Husin* (name has been changed) who regularly violently abused and deprived her of food, sleep and...
Protection of domestic workers
A slow road to end abuse of Indonesia’s domestic workers
Marni Siti* (name has been changed), 22 years old, is just like any other girls. Wearing a red hijab with a black long-sleeve shirt, she calmly revealed a horrific story of being violently abused and imprisoned by her employers for seven years.
Media award and campaign
ILO-AJI Jakarta to launch media award for the best reportages on the protection of domestic workers
The International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with the Jakarta’s Independent Journalist Alliance (AJI Jakarta) is launching a Media Award for the Best Reportages on the Protection of Domestic Workers and the Elimination of Child...
World Day against Child Labour 2016
A journey to child labour free in supply chains
Manipulating the age or borrowing another person’s diploma is not a secret for underage applicants who work in garment factories. They have to work to support their families although they have to face the harsh reality that as child labourers they...
World Day against Child Labour 2016
Tackling child labour in supply chains in Indonesia
This year’s World Day against Child Labour is marked by a focus on child labour and supply chains. Taking the theme: “End Child Labour in Supply Chains”, the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the United States Embassy in...
Students to promote decent work for domestic workers
A series of video and photo story screenings on domestic workers and child domestic workers were conducted at various schools and universities in Greater Area of Jakarta, East Java, South Sulawesi, and Lampung since the beginning of this year to...
Checklist - Guidance on improvements of occupational safety and health in household environment for the employers and domestic workers
This guide can help workers perform independent monitoring on the working conditions and take corrective action voluntarily. The checklist is expected to help employers and domestic workers create a culture of safety and health in the household...
Being child domestic worker, Yantri’s careless choice
Yantri Yohana Lau flew from Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, to Jakarta in mid-July. Yantri was then still 18 years old.
Being domestic workers, way-out for countryside girls to avoid marriage
Sixteen-year-old girl Atun only bowed down when Siti Fatimah (44) visited her house in the village of Lembupurwa, Mirit District, Kebumen Regency, Central Java. Siti is a broker who mediates future domestic workers and their future employers in...
Stories of child domestic workers hunting for ‘small change’
Finding a child domestic worker under 17 years old is not difficult. Some agents, who are supported by brokers, still provide under-age workers to meet the requests of future employers. These agents are hunting for future child domestic workers...
Child domestic workers in cycle of abuse
In March 2015, the Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta) and the National Advocacy Network for Domestic Workers (Jala PRT) provided advocacy to Umirotun (23 years old) to report her agent to the Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Police.
Report - Trade Union Regional Workshop on Capacity Building of Domestic Workers Organizations and Elimination of Child Domestic Labour;...
Organized by the PROMOTE Project ILO Jakarta and ILO Regional Office for Asia Pacific - Bangkok. Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor
Never escaping from modern slavery
The House of Representatives keeps delaying the adoption of the Law on Protection of Domestic Workers. Are they afraid of increasing salary of domestic workers?
Without contracts, domestic workers’ rights unprotected
The condition of domestic workers who have written contracts with their employers is much better than those who do not have ones. Unfortunately, not all domestic workers can be protected by written contracts due to the lack of the government’s...
Lack of OSH protection for domestic workers (2)
The occupational health and safety (OSH) for domestic workers is actually regulated in the Law on Protection of Domestic Workers. Unfortunately, the draft legislation has been stalled for 10 years under the desk of the House of Representatives....
Lita Anggraeni: Our life and death is for the Law on Protection of Domestic Workers
A morning at the Pakubuwono Apartment, South Jakarta. Dozens of women were lining up in front of the main gate of the apartment. They were domestic workers.
Lack of OSH protection for domestic workers
Some professions have already known the term of OSH, Occupational Health and Safety. But it is not the case of domestic workers. Let alone OSH, even a law about them has not been included into the National Legislative Program after being submitted...