<![CDATA[This study aims to analyse the legal framework concerning the protection of platform workers, the legal status of platform workers within digital employment relationships, and the urgency of labour law reform in Indonesia. This research employs a normative juridical research method using statutory, conceptual, case, and comparative law approaches. The results of the study indicate that platform workers in Indonesia remain in a legal grey area. Consequently, the existing legal framework fails to provide legal certainty and adequate legal protection for digital platform workers, because they are classified as partners (mitra) under partnership agreements rather than as workers within the meaning of labour law, thereby preventing them from obtaining normative labour rights as enjoyed by formal workers. In addition, the platform algorithm system creates a concealed subordination relationship that reflects the existence of employment relationship elements. Therefore, labour law reform that is more adaptive to the development of the digital economy is urgently needed in order to provide legal certainty, social protection, and justice for platform workers in Indonesia. The main legal finding of this study is that, although the relationship is formally structured as a partnership, the elements of an employment relationship under Article 1 point 15 of Law No. 13 of 2003-work, wages, and orders-are substantively satisfied, and that algorithmic management functions as a form of digital subordination. The contribution of this study lies in testing the partnership construction against those statutory elements and in assessing Presidential Regulation No. 27 of 2026 on the Protection of Online Transportation Workers, which regulates income sharing and social security without resolving the question of employment status. The reform direction proposed is the insertion of a rebuttable, control-based classification test into the new Manpower Act mandated by Constitutional Court Decision No. 168/PUU-XXI/2023, accompanied by obligations of algorithmic transparency.]]>
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