Legal Status of Domestic Workers in Indonesia in Labor Law and the Implication on Employment Relationship

Abstract

The research in the tradition of normative legal sciences departed from the fact that there are debates about the legal status of domestic workers in Indonesia as workers/ laborers or non workers/ laborers. The results of the study indicate that, there is a juridical denial of the legal status of Domestic Workers in Indonesia as workers/ laborers by the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 13 of 2003 concerning Manpower. This is due to the factors of interest (politic and economic) of the legislators, which in turn has implications on the rights to obtain legal protection and guarantee to the fulfillment of other rights in employment relationship.

Keywords: Domestic Workers, Labor Law, legal status and employment relationship