Lawsuit fails

Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Indonesian Govt for Failing to Protect Migrant Workers
Agus Triyono | February 07, 2012

Migrant rights activists have accused President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of not doing enough to protect overseas workers. (Antara Photo)

The Central Jakarta District Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by domestic workers’ rights activists against the government for failing to protect the country’s maids at home and abroad.

In his ruling on Tuesday, Judge Herdin Agustin said the suit failed to prove that the government had not done its utmost to protect domestic workers, despite not yet ratifying the 1990 UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

Restaria Hutabarat, a lawyer for the group filing the suit, said her camp was disappointed with the ruling.

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