Providing House of Women Workers Protection in Workplace, Indonesia's New Policy

  • Ayu Sofia Rahmi Universitas Padjadjaran
  • Ida Widianingsih Universitas Padjadjaran
  • Erna Herawati Universitas Padjadjaran
Keywords: Women Workers Protection, Workplace, Policy, Indonesia

Abstract

Based on the results of the 2022 survey of violence and harassment in the Indonesian World of Work by the International Labor Organization, psychological violence and harassment is the most common occurrence. However, unfortunately this was not balanced with a strong policy where the results were that 34.53% of respondents stated that their company did not have an anti-violence and harassment policy, 42.55% of victims stated that they could only remain silent and did not know what to do when they experienced it and only 10, 94% of victims reported the case to HR and only 1.80% of victims reported it to the police. This means that these results can illustrate how important comprehensive legal protection is to protect Indonesian workers from violence and harassment in the world of work This research is to describe how Indonesia’s policy on women workers protection. This research uses qualitative methods. The result is Indonesia’s has doing their job to protect the women workers in their policy such as in year 1984: Law No. 7 concerning Ratification of the CEDAW Convention, year 2000: Presidential Instruction No. 9 concerning Gender Mainstreaming in National Development, year 2003: Law No. 13 concerning Manpower, year 2020: Regulation of the Minister of PPPA No. 1 concerning Provision of Women Workers Protection Houses in the Workplace, year 2022: Law No. 12 concerning Criminal Acts of Sexual Violence, year 2023: Decree of the Minister of Manpower No. 88 concerning Guidelines for Prevention and Handling of Sexual Violence in the Workplace.

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Published
2025-05-09
How to Cite
Rahmi, A. S., Widianingsih, I., & Herawati, E. (2025). Providing House of Women Workers Protection in Workplace, Indonesia’s New Policy. Journal La Sociale, 6(3), 873-882. https://doi.org/10.37899/journal-la-sociale.v6i3.1895