Jakarta, May 1 -- International Workers' Day must be used to accelerate the fulfillment of domestic workers' protection through the passage of the Domestic Workers' Protection Law, Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), Lestari Moerdijat, has said.

She observed that efforts to ensure comprehensive legal protection of domestic workers have so far stalled in the parliament.

"I hope the Workers' Day commemoration can be a momentum to accelerate the process of passing the Domestic Workers' Protection Bill into law," she said in Jakarta on Thursday.

She noted that the right to feel safe in performing their jobs is not yet guaranteed to domestic workers.

Domestic workers, she said, do not yet have a comprehensive protec...