Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) has officially approved the Domestic Workers Protection Bill (RUU PPRT) as a DPR initiative proposal during a plenary session on March 12, 2026. DPR Speaker Puan Maharani hopes the bill will provide protection to ensure housekeepers (ART) work comfortably. The approval involved consensus from all attending factions.
On Thursday, March 12, 2026, a plenary session of Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR), chaired by Speaker Puan Maharani at the Parliamentary Complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta, officially approved the Domestic Workers Protection Bill (RUU PPRT) as a DPR initiative proposal. The process began with representatives from eight parliamentary factions delivering mini faction opinions on the bill. Puan then asked the attending members: “With that, all eight factions have delivered their respective faction opinions. Now is the time for me to ask the honorable house assembly, whether the Baleg DPR RI initiative bill on Domestic Workers Protection or PPRT can be approved as a DPR initiative bill?” All present members agreed.
The day before, on March 11, 2026, Deputy Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad stated that the PPRT bill and the Copyright Bill would be discussed and approved as DPR initiative proposals in the following plenary session. “Tomorrow's plenary, the DPR will approve in plenary, namely the PPRT bill becoming a DPR initiative proposal and it will soon be discussed to become a law,” Dasco told reporters.
Puan Maharani emphasized her hope that the bill would maintain harmony and family values in the working relationship between housekeepers (ART) or domestic workers (PRT) and employers. “We hope to maintain harmony, maintain family values, maintain cooperation related to current working ART and PRT, so that they can always work well and comfortably,” said Puan. She added, “And not only the ART or PRT, but also with those who use them.”
Furthermore, Puan stated that the drafting of the PPRT bill would involve public participation. “So all those values will be implemented as best as possible, therefore we also ask all elements of society to provide input, so that the needed meaningful participation is indeed related to all parties,” she concluded. This approval marks the initial step to further discuss the PPRT bill into full legislation.
