Millions of domestic workers in Indonesia are at risk of economic exploitation and routine abuse while living in legal limbo without protection, Amnesty International said as the country marks National Domestic Workers Day on 15 February. The organization called on parliament to urgently pass a domestic workers law before its term expires in September 2014. “Domestic workers remain essentially second-class citizens in Indonesia. Millions of them, the vast majority women or girls, are at risk of exploitation and many are abused, but have no legal means of improving their own situation,” said Papang Hidayat, Amnesty International’s Indonesia Researcher. According to the International Labour Organisation ILO, there were some 2.6 million domestic workers in Indonesia in 2004 – the last year for which statistics are available. The figure is likely to be higher today.
via Indonesia: Exploited domestic workers urgently need legal protection | Amnesty International USA.
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