- Timboel Siregar, General Secretary of the Organization of Social Change in Indonesia (“OPSI”) issued a statement recently in which he claimed that legal protections for freelancers and informal workers were still inadequate, in spite of the fact that the number of informal workers in Indonesia has now reached 131 million workers. For example, informal workers are currently prohibited from registering themselves as participants in pension programs at the Social Security Agency for Labor (“BPJS Ketenagakerjaan”).
- In a separate statement, Ade Wahyudin, Director of Pers Legal Aid (“LBH Pers”), stressed that most freelancers work based on verbal agreements only, which usually leaves them in an unfavorable situation owing to the fact that the various rights and obligations of the relevant parties are not precisely defined. Mr. Wahyudin also asserted in his statement that Decree of Minister of Manpower No. KEP-100/MEN/VI/2004 failed to specifically address categorizations of freelancers, as well as addressing the rights and obligations of freelancers and the employers who hire them.
- According to Mr. Siregar and Mr. Wahyudin, the bottom line as regards this issue is the fact that Law No. 13 of 2003 on Manpower requires urgent revision so as to better accommodate protections for freelancers and informal workers.
- For more on this story, see: “Perlindungan Hukum Pekerja Freelance dan Informal Perlu Diperkuat”.
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