She observed that efforts to ensure comprehensive legal protection of domestic workers have so far stalled in the parliament.
"I hope the Workers' Day commemoration can be a momentum to accelerate the process of passing the Domestic Workers' Protection Bill into law," she said in Jakarta on Thursday.
She noted that the right to feel safe in performing their jobs is not yet guaranteed to domestic workers.
Domestic workers, she said, do not yet have a comprehensive protection system, so they often experience violence and injustice in their daily lives.
In view of this, she urged legislators to work together through various means to continue discussing the bill so that it can be passed into law soon.
According to Moerdijat, fulfilling worker protection is a humanitarian issue and a basic right that must be upheld by everyone in their daily lives.
Therefore, she encouraged the relevant parties in the parliament and the community to speed up deliberations on the bill so that domestic workers can immediately get comprehensive protection in carrying out their jobs.
At the International Workers' Day commemoration event at the National Monument, Jakarta, on Thursday, President Prabowo Subianto promised that the government and the House of Representatives (DPR) will soon conclude deliberations on the bill and ratify it.
The President estimated that the deliberations will be wrapped up in three months.
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