Protection of Domestic Workers in Local Cultural Historical Perspective at Gorontalo City
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 5
Abstract
This study was conducted with an empirical juridical approach by identifying community norms and legal or policy principles related to existence of domestic workers. An empirical approach is used to observe the social phenomena of domestic workers and local cultural scope underlying the working relationship. The method used is to make regulation inventory related to protection of domestic worker, whether it is systematized or not. The survey is conducted by interview method to informant/respondent, spreading questionnaires and then in-depth data collection through input of city government, stakeholder, including society of domestic worker User, Traditional leaders, sociologists and culturist through the Discussion Group Forum. All inputs are analyzed qualitatively to formulate domestic worker protection aspects based on local culture. The results showed that existence of domestic workers in Gorontalo City increasingly eroded by socio-cultural changes of society that developed along with public awareness of Human Rights and rapid advance of technological developments. Cultural values of huyula, timoa, ambu, bilohe and tolianga become a strategy to survive. The most noticeable change is integration norms in family. Working relationships within domestic scope also change. The bargaining position of domestic workers is higher with poor quality of work. Some rural workers still hold the principle of dila biasa (not usual), Moomu (reluctant/reluctant), moolito/moqolito (shame/embarrassment). Even the work relationships as social activities institutions are not supported by strong State instruments. Therefore, an integrated step is needed between domestic workers, service user community, government and wider community to provide protection and certainty to domestic workers based on local cultural values of Gorontalo society.
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Mutia Cherawaty Thalib
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