Some 50 domestic workers took to the front of Indonesia’s parliamentary compound in Jakarta on Monday, sitting under a tent with plates before them. But it wasn’t a feast: the plates instead were ...

(Bloomberg) -- Indonesia is the largest democracy in the world without a law to protect its domestic workers. That may be about to change, with a bill that also paves the way to better rights for ...

It’s no secret that foreign domestic workers across Asia are subject to poor living conditions and low pay, enjoy few rights and freedoms, and are often abused by their employers. Erwiana ...

For over two decades, domestic workers in Indonesia, the vast majority of them women, have been advocating for their rights to no avail. Millions of Indonesian women and girls work in private ...

Indonesian domestic workers and activists advocating for their rights began a hunger strike yesterday to protest against the parliament’s delay in passing a bill to protect domestic workers. As The ...

More than 200 foreign domestic workers, mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia, were living in the Wang Fuk Court housing complex, the site of the deadliest fire in the city for decades that broke ...

Activists hold posters during a protest and hunger strike demanding the parliament to pass a bill to protect domestic workers outside the parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 14, 2023. Credit: AP ...

Among people who died in the Wang Fuk Court housing complex fire are some of the city's 368,000 foreign domestic helpers, ...

Indonesia is set to lift a decade-old ban on sending citizens to Saudi Arabia as domestic workers and formal sector employees ...

As a domestic worker, you have no control over your life. No one respects you. You have no rights. This is the lowest kind of work. —Hasana, child domestic worker who began employment at age twelve, ...

Sobs could be heard across Hong Kong's Victoria Park at the weekend as hundreds of migrant workers mourned victims of Hong ...