Hiring firms obliged to protect contract workers.

Byline: Ridwan Max Sijabat , The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

With the Constitutional Court (MK) having recently banned all outsourcing practices, companies that make money by supplying workers to others now have an obligation to ensure the rights of the workers as guaranteed in their labor contracts.

The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry's industrial relations and social security affairs director general, Myra M. Hanartani, said on Monday that the court's ruling would provide legal certainty to all workers employed under an , outsourcing system.

Normally, a company hires workers on a two-year contract. Based on the court's ruling, companies can only extend the …