Indonesia
A women’s rights group and a number of individual petitioners have filed a legal challenge to the Job Creation Law, saying the law contains discriminatory provisions that impoverish women and undermine their rights.
Female workers plant shallot bulbs on Aug. 8, 2024, at a farm in Kawatuna village, Palu, Central Sulawesi. The regional administration is encouraging farmers to plant shallots, as the food commodity commands high prices in the domestic market. (Antara/Basri Marzuki)
Women’s rights group Women’s Solidarity for Human Rights (Solidaritas Perempuan) along with individual petitioners have filed a legal challenge to the Job Creation Law, saying that the legislation that was enacted three years ago contains discriminatory provisions that impoverish women and undermine their rights.Solidaritas Perempuan and four farmers and indigenous individuals from South Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi and East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) registered their petition with the Constitutional Court in Central Jakarta on Thursday.
In the petition, they argued the law contributes to what they described as the “feminization of poverty” by effectively allowing corporations to take away the livelihoods and rights of farming and fishing communities and indigenous people, particularly those of women.
