Housemaids
(PRT), the most up to date term was pevorative for domestic workers in home who
helped employers in their non-profit daily activities.
Member of Commission IX of House
Hidayatulloh felt PRT was becoming a significant element who made life easier
for individuals especially in their domestic life in the urban areas.
Signification of the one element of
life was not ignorable from the nation’s viewpoint considering that there were
probably around 11 million of recorded Indonesian citizens who had the
profession as housemaids (PRT).
“It seems reasonable if further on
housemaids were given an important position in the context of legal protection
which acknowledge the role and rights and responsibility of that profession”
Poempida disclosed to Business News (4/9).
Member of the Working Committee for
the PRT Bill in House stated that the complexity of problems in the PRT
profession was basically not different from that of other professions. However
the specific nature of PRT was that basically the employers were individuals
(famiies) not an organization while the scope of PRT activities embarked on the
private zone of the employer.
Definitely PRT had direct access to
private or confidential information of the employer as the result of direct
interactions in thei daily activities. “Domestic security of the household very
often relied on the integrity and responsibility of PRT” Pempida said.
As a profession generally held by
the marginal’s, protection for PRT must be given and be managed on the basis of
human rights principles; in this case the position of PRT was in the domain of
law and constitution of RI.
The process of passing the PRT Bill
was somehow dilemmatic in some issues: firstly, the basic mechanism of
remuneration referred to the demographic social economy as parameter which
could not be generalized in all of Indonesia. Secondly, the mechanism of
control of the decision makers. Thirdly, formalization of the PRT profession
which needed standardized competence and trainings. Fourthly, the legal process
in case of dispute between the PRT and the employer. Fiftly, the career
stairway of PRT which was non-existent.
Reactions from those in the position
of employers was generally their dislike for formalities and administration
formalities as consequences of the implementation of the PRT law in the future.
Commission IX of House had their
commitment to answer all of the above challenges by scheming up a Law which was
based on the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.
“Compilation of references and
various simulations of system thinking were the base that I use as reference to
be logically and with full sense of responsibility take part in the process of law
making of this PRT Law” Pempida concluded.
Business News - September 7, 2012
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