Bill on Domestic Worker Protection Becomes DPR Legislative Initiative

Jakarta — The Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI), Puan Maharani, has endorsed the Bill on Domestic Worker Protection (Rancangan Undang-Undang Perlindungan Pekerja Rumah Tangga/RUU PPRT) as a legislative initiative of the DPR RI.

Puan stated that all eight parliamentary factions within the DPR’s Legislative Body (Baleg) have presented their views and agreed to establish the PPRT Bill as a DPR legislative initiative.

“The time has come for us to ask the honourable assembly whether the PPRT Bill, submitted as a legislative initiative of the DPR RI’s Baleg, can be approved as a DPR RI legislative initiative?” Puan asked during a plenary session held at the Parliamentary Complex in Jakarta on Thursday, 12 March 2026.

“Approved,” the assembly responded.

Previously, Deputy Chair of DPR Baleg, Martin Manurung, outlined several key provisions that will be included in the PPRT Bill draft.

According to Martin, the PPRT Bill will regulate aspects ranging from domestic worker recruitment to social security entitlements for domestic workers (PRT).

“One of the rights of domestic workers regulated in this bill is the right to obtain health social security and occupational social security,” said Martin.

The 11 provisions to be regulated in the PPRT Bill are:

1. Protection of domestic workers based on the principles of familial relationships, protection, respect for human rights, justice, welfare, and legal certainty.

2. Recruitment of domestic workers may be conducted directly or indirectly. Written employment agreements is required only for domestic workers recruited indirectly through domestic worker placement companies (P3RT).

3. Any individual assisting with household work based on custom, kinship, family relations, education, or religious grounds shall not be classified as a domestic worker under this law.

4. Indirect recruitment of domestic workers by P3RT may be conducted through offline or online methods, adapting to technological developments.

5. Domestic workers have the right to obtain health social security and occupational social security.

6. Prospective domestic workers receive vocational education and training provided by both central and local governments, as well as by domestic worker placement companies.

7. Vocational education and training for prospective domestic workers includes instruction on social and cultural norms prevalent in the community, adapted to the specific work context, to ensure that domestic worker engagement maintains socio-cultural relations between employers and the placement company.

8. P3RT must be a legally established business entity and must obtain business licensing from the central government in accordance with applicable regulations.

9. P3RT is prohibited from deducting wages, collecting fees in any form or for any reason from prospective or employed domestic workers, and is prohibited from placing domestic workers with business entities or other institutions that are not individual employers.

10. Mediators may issue binding and final decisions regarding wage disputes between employers and domestic workers.

11. Supervision and oversight of domestic worker services is conducted by central and local governments, with the involvement of community organisations in preventing violence against domestic workers.