Policy of Legal Protection Formulation for Domestic Workers in Indonesia Based on Constitutional Rights

Abstract

This normative research was motivated by the existence of domestic workers in Indonesia. Those domestic workers still do not get legal protection guarantee from the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 13 of 2003 on Manpower as the other common workers. There is still no specific regulation on domestic worker protection. This situation makes the domestic workers are easily exploitated. They are easily discriminated and they easily get violence in their labor relations. This situation is contrary to their constitutional rights as citizens as well as workers. Policy of legal protection formulation for domestic workers to be essential to be realized. This is as the effort to satisfy the justice and ensure the legal certainty in the employment relationship in accordance with the constitutional rights. In concrete, the model of policy legal protection formulation for domestic workers, realized through several programs, those are:1) legal reform; 2) law making and; 3) Integrated Service Center For domestic Workers.

Keywords : Formulation Policy, Domestic Workers, Constitutional Rights , Justice and legal certainty.