Last week, Indonesian President Joko Widodo introduced legislation in Parliament that would overhaul the country's infamously inflexible labour laws that investors and experts say paradoxically leave workers worse off.

Three-quarters of the country's non-agricultural workforce is in the informal sector, which includes those who work as housekeepers or casual construction labourers who rarely benefit from the country's labour laws that, among other things, provide for minimum wages as well as severance payments, according to the World Bank.