Puan Maharani

Rule Changes

Gaveled the law through on Kartini Day

For 22 years, Indonesia's roughly 4.2 million domestic workers—nearly 90% of them women—have cleaned, cooked, and raised other people's children with no legal status as employees. On April 21, 2026, the country's Kartini Day holiday honoring women's rights, the House of Representatives passed the Domestic Workers Protection Law (UU PPRT), a bill first introduced in 2004 that had stalled across five parliamentary terms.

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