Jakarta (ANTARA) – Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR)Sufmi Dasco Ahmadhas said that the deliberation of the domestic workers’ protection bill (PPRT bill) will continue again after the DPR’s recess period has ended.”Recess will end on March 13, 2023. We will schedule a leaders’ and (DPR’s) deliberative body’s meeting,” he said at the Senayan Parliamentary Complex here on Monday.

ccording to Ahmad, the meeting is planned to discuss several things that are still hanging or were not settled during the previous session.

“We will discuss and follow it up in accordance with the existing mechanism,” the DPR deputy speaker said.

Earlier, a member of the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan), Theresia Iswarini, said that the ratification of the PPRT bill would strengthen Indonesia’s image at the international level in terms of protection for domestic workers.

There is an urgent need to ratify the bill into law in order to provide support as well as to protect women–since many of them work as domestic workers–from acts of violence, she added.

“The PPRT bill is an effort to support other women to be free from violence, remain protected, and stay prosperous,” she said.

The commissioner expressed the hope that the bill will be ratified as soon as possible given that it has been with the DPR for 19 years.

She further said that delaying the ratification of the PPRT bill could result in a continued increase in the number of victims in the domestic sector.

“One woman domestic worker who is suffering from torture and violence is a figure that must be considered by our policymakers because they are human,” she stressed.

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Source: Antara News Agency