Mereka minta disetarakan dengan pekerja pada umumnya.

Para pekerja rumah tangga di Yogyakarta kemarin mendeklarasikan Kongres Organisasi Pekerja Rumah Tangga. Organisasi itu akan menjadi wadah perjuangan segenap organisasi pekerja rumah tangga, dan akan memperjuangkan perbaikan nasib mereka. Keberadaan organisasi tersebut disepakati dalam kongres yang digelar di Sekolah Pekerja Rumah Tangga Tjoet Nyak Dien di Wirosaban, Yogyakarta.

"PRT (pekerja rumah tangga) itu pekerja, bukan orang yang dikelasduakan," ujar Buyung Ridwan Tanjung, koordinator advokasi pekerja rumah tangga. "Jadi kami menuntut perbaikan nasib," ia menambahkan.

A total of 14 domestic workers organizations in Yogyakarta, Sunday (19 / 4), declared Domestic Workers Organization Congress (Konres Operata Yogyakarta) in domestic workers school of Rumpun Tjoet Njak Dien (RTND).

Events that coincide with the birthday of RTND also characterized a number of activities by the domestic workers, one of them cutting cone (tumpeng) and traditional contest, like cracker eating contest.

Secretary-General of KOY, Murtini tells, the KOY forming intended to unify the organization of domestic workers in Yogyakarta which has been divided. "The aim is gathered into one for something bigger, which improved the fate of domestic workers," she said.

After this declaration, the activities continued with a discussion of constitutions and bylaws of the organization.