Indonesia intensifies worker social protection

Indonesian's Deputy Minister of Manpower, Afriansyah Noor (left), at the 'Social Security for Self-Employed and Platform Workers' seminar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 27. (Photo: en.antaranews.com)

Indonesia Deputy Minister of Manpower Afriansyah Noor has expressed the Indonesian government's commitment to continue developing social protection programmes for workers, including for non-wage recipient workers (BPU).

According to Afriansyah, the development of the social protection programme is also related to participants, especially those who are included in the BPU category, or those who do not receive wages from employers. The programme's development must continue to be pursued, considering the evolving types of work as well as forms of work relationships.

Indonesia is promoting labour protection policies for employers, freelancers, and seasonal workers. To safeguard workers' rights, the country currently mandates two types of compulsory insurance under the BPU scheme provided by the national insurer (BPJS Work), namely Work Accident Insurance (JKK) and Death Insurance (JKM), besides a voluntary programme called Old Age Security (JHT)./.

VNA