The Urgency of Ratifying the Protection of Domestic Workers Bill as An Inclusive Legislation

Abstract

This research aims to examine the urgency of ratifying the Protection of Domestic Workers Bill as inclusive legislation. This issue has been growing over the last decade, where many academics and practitioners are voicing support for the ratification of this Bill. The research method in this article is normative legal research. The results of this study indicate that, firstly, there is a legal vacuum related to the protection of domestic workers, where there are no specific regulations governing legal protection for domestic workers. Secondly, the Protection of Domestic Workers Bill is an inclusive legal product that should immediately be ratified in order to protect domestic workers from discriminatory treatment. In conclusion, the enactment of the Protection of Domestic Workers Bill into law is actually a form of inclusive legislation in protecting the domestic workers themselves, as it will create legal certainty. It is also important to form village supervisory teams to monitor and prevent violence against domestic workers as early as possible. That is basically a form of follow-up action to the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (2), letter e of the Protection of Domestic Workers Bill.