Employment Law Perspective on Eligibility of Obtaining Social Security for Employment Toward Undergraduate Students in Conducting Community Service Program
Abstract
Social Service Program is a mandatory program for undergraduate students in
Indonesia with main events deploying them to designated-usually rural areas to initiate
growth and development in the surrounding community. As the nation obligates the
students to participate in the program, there should be an existing social security
protection for them as the uncertainty risk is at stake. Several universities have
provided employment social security for students as a form of protection which raised
two legal questions, the first question is whether undergraduate students are eligible
to obtain social security because they are not precisely fit into the definition of workers
that receive a salary, wage or other forms of remuneration as stipulated in the
employment act, and the second question is related to how is the foreign countries such
as Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, China, and the Unites States of America provide
protection toward their undergraduate students. The comparison is necessary to
analyze the modern development of workers protection system to essentially create
welfare for all types of workers. Any study related to community service and social
work, or the similarity between the two systems is important to be conducted to prove
the exclusivity of community service in Indonesian tertiary learning programs and find
the best social security system for all types of workers. Hence, this thesis uses
normative legal research by evaluating the implementation of the normative aspect of
a legal stipulation, statute, and legal norms by comparing and analyzing the secondary
data of journals and books related to social security. The result shows that first,
undergraduate students are eligible to obtain employment social security as a non-
labor force, a derivation category of manpower that is subjected to the existing
manpower law. They are eligible to obtain and maintain the social security system with
monthly contributions paid by the university. The result of the second problem
formulation is that foreign countries do not prescribe social community within their
tertiary curriculum program, but the majority of foreign countries such as Malaysia,
Philippines, Singapore, China and the United States of America provide social work
as a program to create social welfare.
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