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Indonesian NGOs Seek Ban on Maid Export
Some 60 Indonesian maids will be repatriated to Jakarta in the next few days amid growing protests from a number of Indonesian NGOs about the treatment of maids in the Gulf. âNearly 60 maids will be repatriated to Indonesia in a few days,â said Tumpal Martua Hutasuhut, head of consular affairs at the Indonesian Embassy here on Thursday. âLast year, 3,610 maids who filed harassment claims against their employers were sent back to Indonesia after they ran away and took shelter at a safe house belonging to the embassy.â
| Presumably these are Muslim maids? .com, can you verify? I.e., they're members of the Master Religion, but not members of the Master Race or the Master Sex... |
The diplomat said a number of NGOs in Indonesia protested against the growing number of abuse and maltreatment cases. They include Nahdhatul Ulema (NU), the Center for Indonesian Immigrant Workers, the Forum for Indonesian Migrant Workers (FWBMI), Konsorsium Pembela Buruh Migran Indonesia and the Committee Advocacy for Indonesian Migrant Workers.
| Sounds pretty much unanimous... |
A migrant workersâ institute affiliated with NU has called on the Indonesian government to immediately terminate selling the export of female workers to the Middle East. A 19-member strong NU team has urged the government at least to establish bilateral ties with countries receiving Indonesian workers, mostly in the Middle East, and dispatch more labor attaches and police liaison officers to handle cases involving workers,â an NU report said. Tumpal said many migrant workers, especially maids, suffer harassment, violence and sexual abuse. But he said 60 percent of cases of runaway maids involved unpaid salaries and only five percent involved sexual abuse at the hands of the employers.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-11-01 |
