Indonesia mulls ban on sending maids to Malaysia
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JAKARTA: Indonesia is
looking to revisit a moratorium on sending its domestic workers to
Malaysia following the death of a maid in
Penang who was allegedly abused by her employers.
Adelina Lisao,
21, died in
a hospital after she was rescued and found with severe injuries to her head and
face, along with infected wounds on her hands and legs.
Indonesian Ambassador to
Malaysia Rusdi Kirana said the proposal had the blessing of
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, who discussed the issue with Malaysia's
Prime Minister Najib Razak during a meeting last year, reported The Jakarta
Post on Saturday (Feb 17).
Rusdi added that he had
previously talked to President Widodo about a possible moratorium.
With the aim of mending
diplomatic ties between the two countries, Rusdi said he had also proposed to
restructure the employment administration process.
“A moratorium is important
so we can restructure our TKI (migrant workers) employment system to
prevent cases such as Adelina’s from happening again,” Rusdi said, referring to
migrant workers in the informal sector.
“In order to promote
cooperation, what happened to Adelina should not happen again,” he added, as
reported by The Jakarta Post.
According to Indonesian
authorities, employment recruiters had forged documents to send
Adelina to Malaysia in 2015.
Relations between Malaysia
and Indonesia have been strained with repeated cases involving migrant
workers.
In December 2016, a
19-year-old Indonesian maid was attacked by
her Malaysian employee with a kitchen knife and a metal mop.
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