Eleven Provisions Regulated in Domestic Workers Protection Bill, From Recruitment to Social Security

JAKARTA — The Legislative Body (Baleg) of the Indonesian House of Representatives has agreed to bring the Draft Law on Domestic Workers Protection (PPRT) to the House Plenary Session on Thursday, 12 March 2026 for designation as a House initiative bill.

“After listening together, do we agree that the results of drafting the bill on Domestic Workers Protection and the harmonisation results of the Copyright bill can be processed in accordance with legislation?” said Bob Hasan, Chair of the Legislative Body, during a session at the Parliament Complex in Jakarta on Wednesday, 11 March 2026.

“Agreed,” responded the Legislative Body members.

The PPRT bill will regulate matters concerning recruitment through to social security rights for domestic workers. One of the key rights for domestic workers established in this bill is the right to obtain health social security and employment social security.

Additionally, the bill will also regulate education and training for domestic workers.

Key provisions of the bill include:

— Protections for domestic workers shall be based on kinship principles, protection, respect for human rights, justice, welfare and legal certainty.

— Domestic worker recruitment can be conducted directly or indirectly. Written employment agreements are only applied to domestic workers recruited indirectly through domestic worker placement companies or P3RT.

— Any person assisting with work within the domestic household sphere based on custom, kinship, family ties, education or religious grounds shall not be classified as a domestic worker as defined in this law.

— Indirect recruitment of domestic workers by placement companies may be conducted both offline and online, adapting to technological developments.

— One of the rights of domestic workers established in this bill is the right to obtain health social security and employment social security.

— Prospective domestic workers shall receive vocational education and training from both central government and regional government as well as from domestic worker placement companies.

— Vocational education and training for prospective domestic workers shall include education on social and cultural norms prevailing in society in accordance with the context of the workplace, so that the provision of domestic worker services can maintain sociocultural relations between employers and placement companies.

— Placement companies must be legally established business entities and must obtain business licensing from the central government in accordance with applicable legislation.

— Placement companies are prohibited from deducting wages, charging fees in any form or for any reason from prospective and actual domestic workers, and are prohibited from placing domestic workers with other businesses or institutions that are not individual employers.

— Mediators may issue decisions on wage disputes between employers and domestic workers that are final and binding.

— Supervision and monitoring of domestic worker arrangements shall be conducted by central and regional governments by empowering neighbourhood community groups in order to prevent violence against domestic workers.