The Urgency of Legal Certainty in the Protection of Domestic Workers in Indonesia: A Study in Yogyakarta City

This study aims to determine the informal sector labor relations pattern among domestic workers in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. The type of research used is empirical juridical research using primary and secondary data, with the technique of concluding using deductive methods. The results showed that in the application of the informal sector labor relationship pattern to domestic work, there are still many who are categorized as violating human rights with a barometer of unsavory recruitment methods, illegal levies from domestic worker service delivery service companies, irregular working hours, workloads that are not following previous employment agreements, very minimal wages, so that it has an impact on the non-fulfillment of the needs of decent living for domestic workers and their families, and in addition to this labor relationship not only adversely affects workers but employers or employers also experience problems while hiring domestic workers, on this basis, the author recommends that the government together with the Pakyat Representative Council immediately pass the Draft Law on the Protection of Domestic Workers.