21. It is currently estimated that there are more than 4 million domestic workers 23 most of whom
are women and girls in Indonesia who do not get adequate legal protection as workers as
provided for example in Law No. 13/2003 on Labour. This lack of legal protection makes
domestic workers vulnerable to economic exploitation and sometimes suffers from physical,
mental and sexual violence.24
22. Komnas HAM believes that by ratifying the Bill on the Protection of Domestic Workers and
ratifying ILO Convention No. 189, Indonesia will send a strong message that the state is
committed to protecting millions of domestic workers at home and at the same time
strengthening the state's efforts to protect millions of its citizens who become domestic workers
abroad.25
Recommendation to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR):
●
To question the GoI about the delay in the issuance of the Draft Law on the Protection of
Domestic Workers and the ratification of ILO Convention No. 189 (2011).
Masyarakat Hukum Adat
23. The official terminology for indigenous populations or indigenous peoples in Indonesia is
masyarakat adat or masyarakat hukum adat, which can be literally translated as “customary
(law) communities” in English. As in other countries in Asia,26 there is still disagreement as to
whether the masyarakat adat or masyarakat hukum adat are exactly equal to ”indigenous
peoples‟ that defined in the international concern for indigenous peoples, as it is perceived
throughout the United Nations system. There is not any official data stating the number of
population of the indigenous peoples in Indonesia. The Alliance of Indigenous Peoples’ of the
Archipelago (Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara, hereafter called as AMAN) estimated
approximately 50 million to 70 million of the 240 millions overall populations in Indonesia.
24. The term masyarakat adat is not used in most Indonesian legal documents, except in the Special
Autonomy Law of Papua No. 21/2001, the Oil and Gas Law No. 22 of 2001 and the Coastal and
Small Islands Management Law No. 27 of 2007. On the other hand, the term masyarakat hukum
adat (adat law community) is found in several laws including the 1945 Constitution, the Basic
Agrarian Law No. 5/1960, Forestry Law No. 41/1999, Human Rights Law No. 39/1999, the
Constitutional Court Law No. 24/2003, Water Resources Law No. 7 of 2004, Plantation Law No.
18 of 2004, and Environmental Protection and Management Law No. 32 of 2009. However,
Komnas HAM argues that the legal recognition of indigenous peoples' existence and rights in
some of those laws are not wholly consistent with of which formulated and defined in the 1945
Constitution.
23
Data according to ILO Indonesia, available at: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---robangkok/---ilo-jakarta/documents/presentation/wcms_553078.pdf dan data menurut DPR RI, available at:
https://www.dpr.go.id/dokakd/dokumen/RJ5-20200226-054930-5717.pdf.
24
National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan), Press Release on the Anniversary of
International Day of Domestic Workers; 10 Year of ILO Convention 189, Time for Indonesia to Ratify, 15 June
2021, available at https://komnasperempuan.go.id/siaran-pers-detail/siaran-pers-komnas-perempuanperingatan-hari-pekerja-rumah-tangga-prt-internasional-16-juni-jakarta-15-juni-2021.
25
Komnas HAM, Enhancing the Protection of Indonesian Domestic Workers Abroad is a Way to Fulfil the Rights
of
Indonesian
Nationals’
Human
Rights,
14
April
2015,
available
at
https://www.komnasham.go.id/index.php/news/2015/4/14/169/meningkatkan-perlindungan-prt-di-luarnegeri-sebagai-upaya-pemenuhan-hak-asasi-manusia-warga-negara.html.
26
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. 2013 Report to the Human Rights
Council, UN Doc. A/HRC/24/41/Add.3. 2013. p. 5.