Feature stories

This is a list of official ILO feature stories issued by the ILO office in Jakarta and Timor-Leste. Some are available in multiple languages, indicated on the top of each stories. The most recent stories is at the top.

2015

  1. Lita Anggraeni: Our life and death is for the Law on Protection of Domestic Workers

    25 August 2015

    A morning at the Pakubuwono Apartment, South Jakarta. Dozens of women were lining up in front of the main gate of the apartment. They were domestic workers.

  2. Lack of OSH protection for domestic workers

    25 August 2015

    Some professions have already known the term of OSH, Occupational Health and Safety. But it is not the case of domestic workers. Let alone OSH, even a law about them has not been included into the National Legislative Program after being submitted over 10 years ago. Thus, the lack of protection for this profession is complete. So, how do they protect themselves from accidents at workplace?

  3. Sunarti: My hands blister when washing clothes

    24 August 2015

    A morning at the Pakubuwono Apartment, South Jakarta. Dozens of women were lining up in front of the main gate of the apartment. They were domestic workers.

  4. ERA Stories: Proving Women Can

    22 August 2015

    When Rosa Sarmento announced to her husband that she was would be a community overseer on a road building project for a difficult and mountainous road in her village of Metagou, she might have well announced that she was flying to the moon.

  5. No maximum efforts yet to protect domestic workers

    21 August 2015

    That afternoon, the sun was burning. The bandanna covering some of her hair looked wet. Sweat was profusely dripping on the temples of her eyes. By her hand, she was swiping sweat from pores on her face. The woman did not care to get burned under the heat. Her smile was even getting broader.

  6. House 'ping-pongs' the Draft Law on Domestic Workers

    21 August 2015

    The man was sitting, leaning back at the terrace of his house. Sipping a cup of coffee, he gazed up at the reddish twilight sky. His eyes looked empty. But his mind was jumping back into a period in the past. His lips were flaring up. He smiled. His fingers combed his hair back.

  7. ERA Stories: Opening up remote communities in Timor-Leste

    21 August 2015

    Sitting on a brand new motorbike, in front of his newly constructed house, Gilberto Baptista, a busy motorcycle taxi driver, admits he owes all his recent good fortune to the newly rehabilitated Leohitu road, Timor-Leste.

  8. National Child Protection Commission: Urgent, the abolition of child domestic workers

    20 August 2015

    Eneng was only 11 years old when she started working as a child domestic worker. Economic reasons had forced Eneng, the third of seven children in her family, to answer an offer from a friend in her village to be a domestic worker in Jakarta.

  9. Workers who are still considered as ‘housemaids’

    19 August 2015

    It was not once or twice that she has to be awake at midnight to take care of her employer’s child who is still under five years old, whether to just prepare some milk, serve food or cradle the child when crying, while before the pre-dawn prayer calls, Marokah has to wake up to prepare breakfast.

  10. Steep road of Draft Law on Protection of Domestic Workers

    15 August 2015

    The Draft Law on Protection of Domestic Workers was submitted more than 10 years ago to the House of Representatives. Along the period, the legal umbrella for domestic workers have been in limbo.